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About Us

KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.) DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

OUR PROGRAMS

Davisville

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 10 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club.

Live Monday 5:30-6pm

Replays Tuesday 12-12:30pm, Friday 5-5:30pm, Saturday 8:30-9am

DJ(s):

Bill Buchanan

Celtic Songlines

Celtic Songlines celebrates the music, stories, and traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and other Celtic lands. Tune in on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7 FM, with replays Monday 8–9 p.m. and Saturday 6–7 p.m. Outside our broadcast area, you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts.

Live Tuesday 11am-12pm

Replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm

DJ(s):

David A. Reynolds

Meraki Radio

Meraki [may-rah-kee] (adjective): This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — when you put "something of yourself" into what you're doing, whatever it may be. Meraki Radio tries to live up to the definition of this interesting word. Anyone who wants to get behind the mic and talk about meraki in their own life — whether it be professional, historical, artistic, scientific, prolific, or otherwise — is encouraged to contact the show at kdrtmeraki@gmail.com.

Live Tuesday 12:30-1pm

Replays Friday 8-8:30am

DJ(s):

Alison B

Twang Thang

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 Monday 6-8pm

Replays Wednesday 9-11pm, Sunday 8-10am

DJ(s):

DJ Dirk

Sometimes Folk

Bill Wagman explores an eclectic range of music, including traditional folk of the British Isles and the U.S, contemporary singer/songwriters on both sides of the Atlantic, and American roots music and some of its lesser-known offshoots. Tune in for a great music mix!

Live Wednesday 10-11am

Replays Monday 3-4pm, Thursday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

Bill Wagman

Homepage URL:

Sometimes Folk

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"Divine Intervention" Strikes, Halloween Night, 7-9p PT

Mon, 10/31/2016 - 6:44pm | Jess Goddèsse

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Ah, yes, that is the scariest jack-o'-lantern we could find...and, yes, it will be a special All Hallow's Eve edition of Divine Intervention. Please do expect some not-too-terribly expected spine-tingling tunes. And, of course, there will be a bit of new music in the mix, rock, pop, and otherwise. Tune in live, 7-9p Pacific. Want replays/playlists? Visit the program page.

LIVE DiRT with T Sisters and Kuinka -- Sunday 10/30/16!

Sun, 10/30/2016 - 4:07pm | Dug Deep

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Dug Deep hosts a pre-Halloween Americana double-header edition of Live DiRT with the T Sisters and Kuinka (formerly called Ra!!it Wilde)! Both bands play live in the KDRT studio on Sunday, October 30th, at 4:30 pm, just ahead of their appearance that evening at the Graduate thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective.

Jazz After Dark October 25, 2016

Tue, 10/25/2016 - 7:50pm | Don Shor

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Traditional jazz, some bebop, some cool jazz, and some of the great female vocalists tonight!

Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
Billie Holiday/Bobby Tucker piano
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Dinah Washington
Thelonious Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Stuff Smith
Carmen McRae
Gabor Szabo
Dave Brubeck
Earl "Fatha" Hines
George Benson & Al Jarreau
Gerry Mulligan

Album of the Week - Fiona Apple - "Tidal"

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 4:44pm | Jess Goddèsse

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Fiona Apple - Tidal cover art

This week's featured album is Fiona Apple's Tidal. Apple's first studio record, it was released in July 1996 on both Work and Columbia Records. By the following year, the release had gone triple platinum, producing no less than six singles. Rolling Stone selected Tidal as one of the best records of the 90s. Quoting RS, "Apple's husky voice and jazzy melodies give an unexpected weight to her confessions on Tidal, as the 19-year-old New York art waif broods over adolescent malaise in off-kilter, insinuating piano ballads like 'Never Is a Promise.' She also comes up with a knockdown theme song in the anomalously hard-rocking 'Criminal,' the anthem of a young woman who's been careless with a delicate man and even more careless with her delicate self." Art waif, indeed.

KDRT's Album of the Week airs every Thursday evening at 5 p.m. PT on KDRT. This week's host is Jess Goddesse.

Leonie Pickett's 7th Grade History Class Special

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 3:25pm | Jeff Shaw

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Hana, Nic, Claire, Samuel, and Moriah from Leonie Pickett's 7th Grade History Class visit KDRT for a special radio show.

Featuring award winning ads from a combined History and English project at Da Vinci Junior High. Check it out!

Jazz After Dark October 18, 2016

Tue, 10/18/2016 - 6:46pm | Don Shor

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An hour of traditional jazz tonight -- 1939 - 68

Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Wynonie Mr Blues Harris with Earl Bostic
Artie Shaw
Lester Young, Nat ‘King’ Cole & Buddy Rich
Billie Holiday
Louis Armstrong
Billie & DeDe Pierce
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Johnny Hodges
Ella Fitzgerald
Illinois Jacquet
Roy Eldridge
Wynton Kelly
Kenny Burrell
Don Sebesky

Davisville, Oct. 17, 2016: Why Gratitude Works

Mon, 10/17/2016 - 6:25pm | Bill Buchanan

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Rachel Cross lives in Davis, works as a registered nurse at a state prison, and previously taught developmental psychology at Sacramento State. For four Thursdays starting Oct. 27, she's teaching a short, free series on gratitude -- not for money or as part of a program, but because she “can’t not" do it. She feels compelled, driven by the demonstrated value of gratitude as a practice -- as something you do. Next month, many people won't be happy with the result of the presidential election, whoever wins. How does gratitude apply there? Does too much gratitude breed complacency ... and who should you be grateful to? We get into all that. Her thoughtful answers draw on her training and experience.

'Divine Intervention' Strikes - M 10/17 7-9p PT

Mon, 10/17/2016 - 6:12pm | Jess Goddèsse

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Square Dance Party cover art

Tonight on Divine Intervention, we have an interesting Vinyl Vespers feature. It's another case of "Will it be awfully good...or just plain awful?" Specifically, we'll hear Mac Gant and his Tennessee Dew Drops—that's the bit that sounds like it might be mighty good. But the record is Square Dance Calls and Instructions—that's the worrisome part. Either way, we'll have an enjoyable worship, along with much rock, pop, and otherwise swingin' sounds, including the possibility of brand-new tracks from Emma Ruth Rundle, Ken De Poto, and more new releases. We'll try to slip in some local flavor, to boot, such as something from Oakland's T Sisters, who'll be performing hereabouts soon thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective. Tune in live, 7-9p Pacific. Want replays/playlists? Visit the program page.

Free Solo Climbing on Listening Lyrics 10/14/16

Fri, 10/14/2016 - 1:46pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Free Solo Climbing, Listening Lyrics, KDRT,

A little different Listening Lyrics - we focus on free solo climbing. Free solo climbing, also known as free soloing, is a form of free climbing and solo climbing where the climber (or free soloist) performs alone and without using any ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, relying entirely on his or her ability instead. Unlike in bouldering, free soloists typically climb above safe heights, where a fall would always result in serious injury or death. In ordinary free climbing, instead, safety gear is used to protect from falls, although not to assist the ascent.

Album of the Week - Lubbock on Everything by Terry Allen -- October 13th 2016

Thu, 10/13/2016 - 4:00pm | Dug Deep

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This week's Album of the Week features a classic you may well have never heard of: Lubbock on Everything by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band from 1979, a record that has over the years become known as a seminal Americana recording. Lubbock on Everything is visual artist Terry Allen’s love letter to the hometown that he left the day after he graduated high school and drove out to LA with his wife, artist/writer Jo Harvey Allen. It rocks some, but it swaggers plenty…and jigs…and two-steps. It’s really an autobiographical snapshot of West Texas culture, with a couple of stories about Terry’s early experiences in the bigtime art world tossed in for good measure. Rolling Stone called it one of the most important records of the 1970s. We are pretty sure Terry knew that when he recorded it. The deluxe reissue treatment is being re-released this week!

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