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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm
Homepage URL: 
Night Train Cocktail Lounge
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Democracy Now!

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Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is an award-winning syndicated news program that gives voice to perspectives rarely heard in corporate-sponsored media, including independent journalists, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world.

Live Friday 9-10am
Homepage URL: 
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Nuestra Musica

Nuestra Musica, Our Music, presents the rhythms and folklore of Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and Cape Verde. From Tango to Flamenco and all Latinx music in between. The show explores the native instruments, languages, and traditions played in 22 countries and one territory. Other than Spanish and Portuguese, "Nuestra Musica" presents songs in Quechua, Mapuche, Guarani, Nahuatl, Gallego, Spanish Basque, and Catalan.

Live Thursday 10-11pm
Homepage URL: 
Nuestra Musica
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Grist for the Chill

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Dave serves up a truly interesting mix of music with a focus on fingerstyle guitar and percussive groove as it relates to roots,  world fusion, jazz, funk, Latin and Brazilian music, and more.  

Live Thursday 11am-12pm
Replays Saturday 11pm-Sunday 12am
DJ(s): 
Dave Mcasey
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Grist for the Chill
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This Way Out

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This Way Out is an award-winning nationally syndicated show that gives voice to the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender movement. Fighting for LGBT equality and rights since 1988, the program shows no signs of slowing down!

Live Tuesday 11:30pm-Wednesday 12am
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Davisville, Jan. 27, 2020: The Davis Night Market. And freedges.

Mon, 01/27/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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Twice weekly at 9:30 p.m., volunteers bring food donated by Davis restaurants and stores to tables in Central Park. Anyone who wants the food is then free to take what they want; the cooked food usually goes first. This is the Davis Night Market, created by students at UC Davis to reduce food waste in Davis and to get food to the hungry. The market serves about 30 people on an average night, and the founders would like to build it into a daily operation. Any food left over goes in the “freedges”—community refrigerators like the tiny libraries you see in front yards around town.

Today we talk with two of the Night Market founders, Valerie Weinborn and Ernst Oehninger, about why they do this, the reaction they’ve had, and what they hope to achieve. She’s a veterinarian from Chile who has a doctorate in Food Science; he’s a PhD student in Natural Resource Economics and comes from a family of farmers in Brazil.

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Eunah's Banchan selections for January 23, 2020: Murder Ballads

Thu, 01/23/2020 - 9:03am | Eunah

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What to expect on Banchan for January 23, 2020:

Henry Lee  (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. PJ Harvey) ▪ Man Down (Rihanna) ▪ Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Sleigh Bells) ▪ John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (Sufjan Stevens) ▪ Down in the Willow Garden (Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones) ▪ Knoxville Girl (The Louvin Brothers) ▪ I Killed Sally's Lover (The Avett Brothers)

Streaming Jan. 23 11:30AM-noon at kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Today's Banchan selections have been inspired by my recent obsession with true crime stories (found three new true crime podcasts and those have been making time FLY while I'm at work). All songs in today's playlist are based on stories of gruesome crimes.

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Jazz After Dark January 21 2020

Tue, 01/21/2020 - 7:02pm | Don Shor

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Coming up at 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark: Count Basie, Sonny Stitt, Ken Sykora, Bobby Hackett, The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Charlie Byrd, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Abdullah Ibrahim & Buddy Tate, Benny Carter, Tito Puente, Clark Terry, Gabor Szabo.

95.7 FM in Davis CA, Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

Look for us on iTunes or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

Photo, clockwise from upper left: Tommy Flanagan, Tito Puente, Ken Sykora, Bobby Hackett.

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Adrian West in the Studio, Recorded Jan 17th, 2020

Fri, 01/17/2020 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Adrian West spends the hour with us in the KDRT studio. Listen now to his musical abilities.

His sound is original acoustic rock that sounds like Paul Simon meets Dave Matthews meets Talking Heads. His band also features vocal harmonies, guitar, electric violin, bass, drums, sometimes an alto sax, and a bit of live “looping.”

Born and raised in Montreal, Adrian is an exciting performer. A gifted vocalist, he moves effortlessly between guitar & violin, sometimes using live looping to add layers of sound and intrigue to his songs. With a knack for language that's simple yet poetic, he's not afraid to tackle difficult topics in his songwriting. "Safe Streets" tells an allegory about police violence, "Close Your Eyes" laments the beauty bias that pervades the mass media, and "Senses" entreats you to appreciate your senses while you can. But Adrian doesn't take any of this stuff too seriously; his lyrics are infused with a sense of hope and a touch of whimsy.

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Jazz After Dark January 14 2020

Tue, 01/14/2020 - 7:41pm | Don Shor

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Coming up at 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark: Erroll Garner, Duke Ellington, Ahmad Jamal, Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass, Joe Pass, Houston Person, Ben Paterson.

Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm

Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

Look for us on iTunes or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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Jazz After Dark selected favorite songs from 2019

Mon, 01/13/2020 - 9:30pm | Don Shor

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  • artist         song         album         year
  • Doris Day/Les Brown       Sentimental Journey       1944
  • Nat King Cole      Orange-Colored Sky        The Majestic      1950
  • Richard Twardzik Russ Freeman      Round Midnight       Richard Twardzik & Russ Freeman Trio      1953
  • Ken Sykora     Oh, Lady Be Good !      The Man with the Guitar       1954-73
  • Billie Holiday      I Cover the Waterfront       At Carnegie Hall      1956
  • Lou Donaldson    Grits And Gravy       Swing and Soul        1957
  • Gerry Mulligan       Four and One More       Gerry Mulligan Vol.01        1958
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Davisville, Jan. 13, 2020: Learning from the Simpsons at UC Davis

Mon, 01/13/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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“Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.”

"Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.' "

"D'oh!"

The Simpsons has delivered enough humor, satire, great writing and insight during its 30 years on TV to have attracted serious attention (and sites devoted to its funny quotes, like these from main character Homer Simpson). Karma Waltonen, an instructor at UC Davis whose expertise ranges from Margaret Atwood to stand-up comedy, teaches a class on the Fox network cartoon series at the University of California, Davis, and recently published her second book on the show, The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield: Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All (co-edited with Denise Du Vernay). On Davisville today she talks about The Simpsons, why the program matters, why students want to study it, and similarities between Springfield and Davis.

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What You Did on Jan. 4, 2020, at 3:30 p.m. (recorded Jan. 10)

Fri, 01/10/2020 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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On Saturday Jan. 4, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. (San Francisco time), Listening Lyrics spied on some  friends and acquaintances and recorded what these folks where listening to at that time. The result is quite a mix of music, and a fun hour. The listeners were Connor Pastoor, Casey Groat, Brad Elliot, Karin Pastoor Hulsebosch, Thomas Bjorkroth, Billy P. Thompson, Ben Simmons, Evan Daly and Kevin Welsch. This was all done through the courtesy of Spotify. Enjoy!

 

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Folk Brothers albums of 2019

Thu, 01/09/2020 - 4:58pm | Peter Schiffman

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Some of Peter's favorites (in no particular order):

Judy Collins, Jonas Fjeld, and Chatham County Line/Winter Stories

Mandolin Orange/Tides Of A Teardrop

I See Hawks In LA and The Good Intentions/Hawks With Good Intentions

Daoiri Farrell/A Lifetime Of Happiness

Lankum/The Livelong Day

Christy Moore/Magic Nights

Joan Shelley/The River Loves The Sea

Show Of Hands/Battlefield Dancefloor

Andrew Marlin/Buried In A Cape

Jake Xeres Fussell/Out Of Sight

Tom Russell/October In The Railroad Earth

The Crooked Jades/Empathy Moves The Water

Kora Feder/In Sevens

Various Artists/Vision and Revision: The First 80 Years Of Topic Records

Tune in:   https://kdrt.org/program/folk-brothers

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Jazz After Dark January 07 2020

Tue, 01/07/2020 - 7:38pm | Don Shor

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Spanning the decades tonight on Jazz After Dark: 1930 – 2008. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes  and His Three Blind Mice, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Stan Kenton And His Orchestra, Gene Krupa, Earl Bostic, Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, Louis Prima, Earl Hines, Jerry Fielding, Robert ‘Bootsie’ Barnes, Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie.

Live at 8 pm on 95.7 FM, KDRT-LP in Davis CA.

Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm

Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

Look for us on iTunes or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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