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ABOUT US

KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

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Na Mele O Hawai'i

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Join host Beth Post as she features the unique sounds of Hawaiian music — from early icons of island music to today's innovators — exploring styles, the history of the genre, and revered songs and performers.

Live Thursday 1-3pm
Replays Saturday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Beth Post
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Mapping Healthcare

Mapping Healthcare is a radio show and podcast where a medic with a map explores ways in which people around the globe improve the world of healthcare and what we can learn from them. The host is a physician, medical educator, and researcher who leads programs that help health systems deliver high-quality healthcare. All past episodes are archived below. Find Mapping Healthcare on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Live Friday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8-8:30am
DJ(s): 
Dr. Shaikh
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Blue Light Central

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Every week, the big blue train we call the Blue Light Central rumbles out of the station for an hour-long ride through a landscape of blues, classic R&B, soul, gospel, zydeco, and low-down boogie. Mark Drnek is your ticket agent, porter, engineer, brakeman, and conductor on a weekly excursion through the vast music landscape.

Live Thursday 9-10pm
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Davisville

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Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 17 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, including first place in radio/podcast public affairs programs for 2025, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024, and first place nationwide in news/public affairs programs among small stations from the Public Media Journalists Association in 2026.

Live Monday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8:30-9am
DJ(s): 
Bill Buchanan
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Monday Morning Show

The Monday Morning Show with DJ Ned brings variety to morning drive with a mix of music (depending on Ned's mood), production pieces, discussion of current events, occasional guests, general musings on life in Davis, and Ned goofing off 100% of the time.

Live Monday 7-9am
DJ(s): 
Ned
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'Is It Alive? Tracks' brings out its annual Halloween show

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:51am | kdrtradio

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Dead Tracks.

It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.

Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.

It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.

Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 26, 2023

Thu, 10/26/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On this week's program: Gardening info from the internet, pollarding trees, composting leaves, and more.

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Album of the Week, Oct. 25, 2023: Paul McCartney's 'Kisses On The Bottom'

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week's host is Pieter playing Paul McCartney's Kisses On The Bottom, the 2012 collection of standards Paul grew up listening to as well as the two new McCartney compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts."

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IMPLOSION, 25 Oct 2023

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 4:00pm | Nick Saloman

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It's almost time for this week's edition of IMPLOSION with the one and only Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond fame. Tune in at 5p Pacific for a marvelous musical mix, including the Only Ones, the Isley Brothers, the Knickerbockers, and more, more, more!

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 24, 2023

Tue, 10/24/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We have the music of Cole Porter tonight, with performances by Julie London, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, June Katz, Bireli Lagrene, Steve Gadd, Harold Mabern Trio, and Terry Gibbs.

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Community radio, volunteers, and Doug Kelly, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Doug Kelly joins us this week to discuss the importance of community radio, and to share his insights, experience and long history with radio.

Doug is a board member of Davis Media Access, a nonprofit community media center that includes KDRT. He also hosts Electric Compost Heap.

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Electric Compost Heap, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 5:45pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm on the Electric Compost Heap, Dug Deep will play a wide variety of old and new sounds. He'll also highlight tunes from the Death Valley Girls and the Snares (from Sacramento!), playing in Davis on Halloween. Big thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective for making this event happen!

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 19, 2023

Thu, 10/19/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week we talk about October in your garden, fig trees near vegetable beds, California fuchsias (Epilobium, formerly called Zauschneria), fruit trees in public spaces and school gardens, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 17, 2023

Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker, Anita O'Day, Phineas Newborn Jr., Lou Donaldson, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Nancy Wilson & The Great Jazz Trio, McCoy Tyner, Piano Connection, and Ahmad Jamal.

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Davisville, Oct. 16, 2023: After enduring 50 years of cinematic bafflers, reviewer Derrick Bang calls ’em out

Mon, 10/16/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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All the baffling cliches you’ve seen in movies — idiot plots, hobbled assailants able to chase down a healthy person trying to escape, bloated tension-killing dialogue — these are all things Derrick Bang has endured over and over during his 49 years of writing movie reviews.

He recently listed several of these cinematic headscratchers in an article for the Davis Enterprise, and on today's Davisville he enjoys going over a few of them with program host Bill Buchanan (the photo shows Derrick on the right, Bill on the left). We also get Derrick’s suggestions for movies for the Halloween season, and his thoughts on the Chinese government’s efforts to punish filmmakers for work it finds offensive, even when the movies in question aren't shown in China. Such pressure could help explain why so many mainstream Hollywood movies are superhero stories, he says. “It’s not just because they’re popular. They’re safe.”

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