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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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Twang Thang

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Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, showcasing the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver ... Americana music didn't just show up one day — it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores the originators, the newcomers, and the music that happened along the way!

Live Wednesday 7-9am
Replays Saturday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
DJ Dirk
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Independent and Local

Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands, including "Moments" — brief interviews with experts in the scientific, health, and artistic communities about interesting topics and current events. The main focus is music, along with a few outside-the-box ideas.

Live Wednesday 8-9pm
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
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Planetary Radio

Planetary RAdio

Each week, Planetary Radio visits with a scientist, engineer, project manager, astronaut, advocate or writer who provides a unique and exciting perspective on the exploration of our solar system and beyond.

Live Wednesday 5-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
Planetary Radio on the web
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Sonic Rehab

Join DJ Jojo Johanssen as he takes you for a two-hour ride through his eclectic tastes. Expect the unexpected, from jazz to electronica, latin to classic rock, pop, disco, soul, and much more. Ease into your week with some Sonic Rehab on Monday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. pacific time. Find the Sonic Rehab archive here: https://archive.org/details/@andrew_hird! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop Jojo a line at djjojo530@hotmail.com

Live Monday 1-3pm
Replays Sunday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
Jojo Johanssen
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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Pieter Pastoor, KDRT
Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor as he sends color to your ears. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.
Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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Davis Garden Show, March 17, 2022

Thu, 03/17/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today we revisit some garden myths, talk about soil mycorrhizae, and more.

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The Folk Brothers for March 16, 2022: Whales are folks too

Wed, 03/16/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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Brother Bill is back from Baja, where he spent a week petting baby blue whales ... awww. And he brought in a bunch of whale songs this morning from the likes of Tom Lewis, Country Joe McDonald, Tom Pacheco, and other fishy folkies. We also have Molly Tuttle singing about her grampa's farm, I Draw Slow singing about the coming apocalypse, and Black 47 with Finbar Furey singing about Father Mychal Judge, the first official fatality of 9/11.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/16/2022
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Jazz After Dark March 15 2022

Tue, 03/15/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Harlan Leonard, Art Tatum with  Benny Carter and Louis Bellson, Ruby Braff, Oscar Peterson Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra with  Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, Art Farmer, Bobby Militello with the Brubeck family, and Perico Sambeat.

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This year's Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access -- save the date, April 21, 2022

Sat, 03/12/2022 - 2:19pm | Diane Crumley

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Since its inception in 2004, Don Saylor’s Soup’s On event has raised more than $300,000 and increased community awareness for many worthy causes in Yolo County. In 2022, its final year, Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access and will feature the live music of MUMBO GUMBO.

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Davis Garden Show, March 10, 2022

Thu, 03/10/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week's subjects include:

  •   When to "set out" vegetable seedlings
  •   Reviewing 2021 veg garden results
  •   March garden calendar

and more!

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The Folk Brothers for March 9, 2022: Transatlantic sounds old and new

Wed, 03/09/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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On their debut album in 1968, a group of kids from the suburbs of north London covered a Richard Farina song about a city in Nevada. During the pandemic, a singer-songwriter from Edinburgh teamed up with musicians from Tucson. Sometime in between, a guitarist/mandolinist from Nashville became a founding member of a band of transatlantic musicians who play the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow every winter. Find out who they all are on today's show.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/09/2022
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Jazz After Dark March 08 2022

Tue, 03/08/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark, jazz from 1940 to 1992: Artie Shaw, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Joe Guy And Thelonius Monk, Nat King Cole, Milt Jackson with Ray Charles, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans, Toots Thielemans, Ella Fitzgerald, Gabor Szabo, Eddie Harris, and Stan Getz with Kenny Barron.

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Davisville, March 7, 2022: How live music is returning to Davis

Mon, 03/07/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Live music is music, obviously, but it’s also culture, a reason to get together with friends, part of the economy—and this spring, as in-person performances continue to resume in Davis, it’s another marker of how the Covid pandemic is easing. Knock on wood.

Today we talk with Danny Tomasello, who’s part of the Davis Music Fest, and musicians Sam Misner and Megan Smith about the hodgepodge return of local concerts, what might have changed for keeps during the pandemic, this June’s Fest, and the need for someone to write about local music the way that Wendy Weitzel writes about local businesses and restaurants.

(The photo shows Misner and Smith onstage at Berryessa Brewing in Winters in February 2020, right before the pandemic hit.)

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Kevin Welch of Boca do Rio and the meaning of a grant, on Listening Lyrics, March 4, 2022

Fri, 03/04/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Boca do Rio was the second band to be awarded the annual Davis Independent Music Initiative (DIMI) grant, in 2021. The committee that awarded it included the 2020 winner, Davis musician Joel Daniel of the Hoots, reported the Sacramento News and Review in July 2021: "The grant is part of an annual effort to boost Davis’s music scene by providing one local band with funding. Daniel’s hope is that it offers musicians who might otherwise seek a career in Sacramento or the Bay Area the support they need to foster their talents closer to home." Applications for the 2022 grant are due by April 1.

We wrap up this show playing a Led Zeppelin song as interpreted by the Alex Jenkins Trio. Here is an All About Jazz review of their newest album, Tri-Cycle, from 2021.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/04/2022
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Davis Garden Show, March 3, 2022

Thu, 03/03/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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The subjects this week include:

  • Night temperatures for seedlings
  • Types of red-leaf plums
  • Tender perennials grown as annuals
  • Planting times for different vegetables

and more.

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