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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

Crossing Continents

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm
Replays Sunday 12-2pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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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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The Wild Fox Party

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Tune in for a wide variety of roots music — including doo-wop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, Latin, African, and hillbilly/country bluegrass — from the early 1920s to contemporary times. The Wild Fox Party focuses on vocal groups , small-group ensembles, and outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists who never or hardly ever get heard. The music provides a forum for learning about history and diverse cultures, and it does so through the exposure of music as art, highlighting points in time that will last forever via the medium of audio recordings.

Live Tuesday 10-11am
Replays Tuesday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Doo Wop Dave
Homepage URL: 
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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: 
Democracy Now! on the web
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Live Tracks

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 LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 759 original programs by March 2026.  Join me on my quest to reach show number 777.  Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm
Replays Saturday 9-11pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Alex Jordan is More Than a Subtle Musician: the Interview, Friday, October 2, 2020

Thu, 10/01/2020 - 11:06am | Pieter Pastoor

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Alex Jordan was born to music, playing first trumpet, then bass, then guitar—and always singing.  His musical influences ranged from jazz to musical theatre.  He studied his father’s extensive CD collection, in particular the Grateful Dead section, which considerably expanded his perception of what was music.  Listening to a live album, he had a revelation when he heard a passage in which silence was clearly part of the music. “It was quantifiably, certifiably, distinctly music, and it was dead silence. I’d never heard anything like that.  I don’t know that I became a Deadhead at that moment, but I sure got it.”

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Jazz After Dark September 29 2020

Wed, 09/30/2020 - 11:33am | Don Shor

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Jazz After Dark for Sept 29: the music of Fats Waller!

Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Earl Bostic, Una Mae Carlisle and Her Jam Band, Dinah Washington, Tony Bennett, Mose Allison, Chris Barber, Jose James & Jeff Neve, Allen Toussaint, Yusef Lateef

Jazz After Dark broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA.

Replays Monday 11 pm.

Link to this week's show: https://kdrt.org/audio/jazz-after-dark-800pm-sep-29th-2020

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

Show page here: https://kdrt.org/program/jazz-after-dark

Look for us on iTunes (you can listen to the live broadcast via their Radio link; just search for KDRT) or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 37: Jesse Salinas Discusses Yolo Co. Elections and NJ Mvondo Introduces Interactive Healing Art Project - Sep 29th, 2020

Tue, 09/29/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

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My guests this week are  Jesse Salinas,  Assessor/Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters for Yolo County, and artist and community organizer NJ Mvondo, to speak about the new Healing Art Project unfolding in Davis.

Jesse's office  is responsible for multiple key functions within Yolo County, but for this show,  we’ll focus on his role as registrar of voters. Jesse’s team has been very busy getting out information about the changes to voting during the Nov. 3 election cycle, and I'm delighted to speak with him and get fully up to speed on what we need to know here in Yolo County.

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Davisville, Sept. 28, 2020: Davis housing, 6 months into the pandemic

Mon, 09/28/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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On today’s Davisville we talk with Steve and Kit Boschken, Davis real estate experts and the owners of Boschken Properties, about the housing market in Davis this fall. Today's topics follow up our talk with Steve Boschken last May, and include apartment vacancies, the thin supply of homes for sale, rising home prices, the pandemic, unhealthy air from the wildfires, rents, buyers, trends, interest rates, lasting impacts, and not knowing when students will be able to resume in-person classes at UC Davis. Almost all UC Davis classes this fall are online, and could stay that way through the rest of the academic year.

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Silver Nine Volt Heart Salutes Grassroots Radio Broadcasters on 16th Birthday for KDRT - Sep 24th, 2020

Thu, 09/24/2020 - 7:10pm | Rodriguez

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Welcome to the 145th edition of Silver Nine Volt Heart.  In this special broadcast - the 16th birthday of KDRT - you will hear the sounds from a wide-range of genres spanning from the jazz of Ella & Louis, Herb Alpert and Stan Getz,  to Americana, Folk, Country and beyond from Chris Hillman, Peter Rowan, Richard and Linda Thompson, to some of our beloved local bands like The Nickel Slots, Richie Lawrence and The Yolos, and Webster, Walton, Edwards.  The song selection for this show is based upon a sampling of what you might hear from our over 25 locally produced programs and the unique expertise of our local volunteer DJs.  Host Rodriguez also reads the words from over a dozen KDRT programmers who responded to an email this week asking them what it means to be involved with Davis' grassroots community radio.  

Silver Nine Volt Heart playlist for 09/24/2020
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Davis Teen Broadcaster at KDRT Community Radio is Selected as National Points of Light Finalist

Wed, 09/23/2020 - 4:20pm | Diane Crumley

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Davis Media Access (DMA) is pleased to announce that one of its youth participants has been selected as a finalist in the national Points of Light Foundation’s Youth Summit Pitch Contest, held Aug. 19, 2020.  The Summit brought together youth aged 13-18 from across the country to reflect on the challenges and opportunities presented by the new school year and the “new normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Rohan Baxi, a 9th grade student from Da Vinci Junior High in Davis, CA pitched his project idea, “Timeout Radio: Building Teen Connection in a Time of Distance,” to the Foundation, and was selected as one of 10 finalists. The recognition comes with a $1,000 award to help further his project.

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Jazz After Dark September 22 2020

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 6:34pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark.

Tonight’s program is dedicated to Stanley Crouch, legendary jazz critic who died September 16, 2020, at the age of 74. He wrote for the New York Daily News and the Village Voice, collaborated with Ken Burns on his Jazz mini-series documentary, and co-founded Jazz at the Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis.

We’ll hear from three jazz artists that he respected:

Duke Ellington (shown above), who Crouch described as “the greatest of all jazz musicians” in his column Duke Ellington: Artist of the Century from December 1, 1999.

Charlie Parker: Crouch wrote Kansas City Lightning: the Rise and Times of Charlie Parker over a thirty year period. He described Parker as “the self-made creator of a vital and breathtakingly structured jazz vernacular and an anarchic man of dooming appetites.”

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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 36: A Visit With UC Davis Chancellor Gary May - Sep 22nd, 2020

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

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Today''s guest is UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, who happens to be the most-requested interview from a poll of community members asked to suggest future guests. Some 24,000 UC Davis students are expected to be living here for the fall quarter, which starts Sept. 28, with the vast majority living in apartments and single-family homes in Davis and surrounding cities. What impact will this have on our COVID-19 numbers? How is the university managing its approach to COVID?

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Celtic Songlines Celebrates Mabon and the Autumn Equinox - Sep 22nd, 2020

Tue, 09/22/2020 - 12:10pm | David A. Reynolds

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It is the time to celebrate Mabon, the Autumn Equinox, and honor the seasonal changes and celebrate the harvest. This is a time of giving thanks for the things we have, whether it is abundant crops or other blessings. It's a time of plenty, of gratitude, and of sharing our abundance with those less fortunate. 

This week's program will feature artists Lisa Thiel, Lúnasa, Malinky, Jenna Greene, Libana, two selections from the just released album "Wrackline" by Folkworks: Fay Hield, Omnia, the Afro-Celt Sound System, FAUN and Northern Ireland's Déanta.

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Jazz After Dark September 15 2020

Tue, 09/15/2020 - 7:05pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Count Basie, Erroll Garner, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, The Don Ellis Orchestra, Paul Desmond Quartet, Bob Brookmeyer Small Band, Ramsey Lewis, Houston Person, and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen with Mulgrew Miller.

Jazz After Dark broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

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

Show page here: https://kdrt.org/program/jazz-after-dark

Link to tonight's program: https://kdrt.org/audio/jazz-after-dark-800pm-sep-15th-2020

(Music shows are archived for two weeks).

Look for us on iTunes (you can listen to the live broadcast via their Radio link; just search for KDRT) or your favorite podcast site.

https://player.fm/featured/jazz

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