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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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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Kurt.org, community radio

Welcome to an hour of Listening Lyrics, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California.

No musical passports required. Folk can sit next to funk, jazz can dance with rock, and a singer-songwriter might end up sharing a park bench with a reggae band. Listening Lyrics is your invitation to escape the noise of the day and enter a world of elaborate sounds, unexpected discoveries, and songs that have something to say.

This is the kind of journey only commercial-free community radio can provide.

So close your eyes. Open your ears. Relax your mind. Join me, Pieter Pastoor, as we send color to your ears and wander through the vast landscape of music and lyrics—the grand meeting place of rhythm, imagination, and the remarkable human ability to create art. Whether it's a whisper, a roar, a groove, or a melody you've never heard before, it all belongs here.

Remember: Real Music. Real Community. Real Good Music.

Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
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Roots, Shoots and Leaves

Roots, Shoots and Leaves' DJ Tree has a theory of music that involves a tree. Suffice it to say that it involves a trinity — an exploration of themes and connections among recording artists — and otherwise very few boundaries. Listen for music old and new, known and unknown. And if you listen long enough, you may experience some musical enlightenment.

 

Live Tuesday 6-8pm
Replays Saturday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
Tree Kilpatrick
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Taste, Talk and Whine: All about Wines

Taste Talk & Whine

Tune in for weekly discussions on topics related to wine making and wine enjoyment — plus occasional guests and engagement with listeners. Topics will span the spectrum from technical growing, making, and tasting to what we're drinking to the best places to find a bottle locally.

Live Tuesday 5:30-6pm
DJ(s): 
Nicole Salengo Lee, Tree Kilpatrick
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Hello Davis!

Hello Davis!

Hello Davis! spotlights the people and organizations that help define the character of our town. Each week, one of the follow local community organizations hosts the program in rotation, interviewing guests connected to their work — sharing stories, highlighting their programs, and offering a closer look at how they serve Davis. 

Live Wednesday 5:30-6pm
Replays Wednesday 11:30pm-Thursday 12am
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
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The Wild Fox Party

WILD FOX RADIO PARTY

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: 
DrDoowop
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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 35: Davis AquaMonsters and Davis Arts Center Describe How Their Summer Programs Adapted - Sep 8th, 2020

Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

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Each week on the "COVID-19 Community Report," we share local news and resources, focusing on what’s impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today on Episode 35, I'll interview Koren Motekaitis about her longtime role co-directing youth swim program Davis AquaMonsters. We'll discuss impacts of the pandemic on youth sports, including how it's narrowing future options for recognition and scholarships.  I'll also talk with Stacie Frerichs, executive director of the Davis Arts Center, about how they've had to pivot and change during the pandemic.

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Let Us Stay Positive: Tunes for the Times on Listening Lyrics, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020

Thu, 09/03/2020 - 4:11pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Covid-19, hurricanes, fires, racial unrest, a polarized country -- yes, we are living in biblical times. So take an hour and listen to the sounds musicians have been giving us to carry on.

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Jazz After Dark September 01 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 6:45pm | Don Shor

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Coming up at 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark: old-fashioned jazz by some of the great artists of the mid-20th century. Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, Eubie Blake, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Lunceford, Sidney Bechet, Erskine Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gerry Mulligan, The Ray Brown Trio, Diana Krall, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones.

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

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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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 34: Speaking with Sara Gavin, Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Davis and Melanie Carr of Tuesday Table- Sep 1st, 2020

Tue, 09/01/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

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This unparalleled time we're living through affects not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. Today I speak with Sara Gavin, LMFT/LPCC. She serves as Chief Behavioral Health Officer at CommuniCare Health Centers, overseeing a 100-person team of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder services in Yolo County,  and also sits on the Board of Directors of National Alliance for NAMI-Yolo. We'll speak about current mental health challenges, and what kinds of local resources are available.  In our second interview, I chat with Melanie Carr, a Davis resident who's been offering a "Tuesday Table" through the pandemic, a "take what you need" offering in one Davis neighborhood.

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Davisville, Aug. 31, 2020: Changes in Davis homelessness since a year ago

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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Ryan Collins and Paul Doroshov first appeared on Davisville in July 2019 to talk about homelessness in Davis (“Many homeless people in Davis are finding homes, but more people are becoming homeless”). Today we catch up with developments since then, including the Daytime Respite Center that opened on L Street in February, and the impact of the pandemic. Ryan works directly with homeless people in Davis as the homeless outreach services coordinator for the city, and Paul is deputy police chief for Davis.

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Listening Lyrics Goes Classical, with Eunghee Cho, on Friday August 28, 2020

Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Born in Davis, Korean-American cellist Eunghee Cho earned second prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. He is principal cellist of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, artistic director of the Mellon Music Festival in Davis, and serves on the faculties of Middlesex Community College and Derby Academy.

He has been invited to perform at such international festivals as La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, Taos School of Music, Festival International d’Echternach, and Rencontres Franco Américaines de Musique Chambre. He is enrolled in New England Conservatory’s Doctor of Musical Arts Program under the guidance of distinguished pedagogue Laurence Lesser. (Photo by Chris Kitchen, used with permission of the Heifetz International Music Institute)

From Pieter: If you enjoyed this program, please hit the like button on the Listening Lyrics Facebook page. If you're interested in appearing on the show, hit me up at promotions@kdrt.org

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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 33: Dr. Larissa May, Interim Yolo County Public Health Officer, on August 25, 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

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This week's guest is Dr. Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS, who began serving as Yolo County's public health officer this month. Dr. May is a professor of emergency medicine and a public health expert at UC Davis Health. She is a board-certified emergency physician, and her work often focuses on the epidemiology and management of infectious diseases, including best practices for diagnostic testing, outbreak response, and infection prevention. We'll discuss the COVID-19 pandemic at this moment in time, how we chart a course forward through school reopenings, testing, vaccine development, and more. Dr. May explains how Yolo County has increased its infrastructure for contact tracing; UC Davis is currently participating in a Phase 3 clinical vaccine trial as part of a worldwide study.

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Jazz After Dark August 25 2020

Tue, 08/25/2020 - 10:02am | Don Shor

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Jazz After Dark presents a special show tonight featuring artists and works from a new book: Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950 – 1970, by local author Derrick Bang.

We’ll hear performances by Henry Mancini, Alex North  and Jerry Goldsmith, Duke Ellington, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Laurie Johnson, Mundell Lowe, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones.

Featuring selections from The Pink Panther, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peter Gunn , Anatomy of a Murder, Satan in High Heels, Goldfinger, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, and more.

For some, it will be a trip down memory lane; for younger listeners it’s a glimpse into the role of jazz in contemporary culture of the mid-20th century.

For more information about the book, just visit https://www.screenactionjazz.com/

Check out Bill Buchanan’s July 6 interview with Derrick Bang on Davisville on KDRT:

https://kdrt.org/audio/davisville-july-6-2020-bang%E2%80%99s-new-books-h...

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Jazz After Dark August 18 2020

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 7:11pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Some cool, some soul jazz, and more.

Ella Fitzgerald, Chico Hamilton, Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Paul Gonsalves Quartet, Art Tatum, Jimmy McGriff, Stan Getz with Jimmy Raney, Branford Marsalis

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

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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3rd Streaming Celebrates the Birthday of French Composer Claude DeBussy and His Impact on Classical Music and Jazz - Aug 18th, 2020

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 3:10pm | Gary Chew

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Mid August always brings the date when Claude Debussy was born. As we're at 2020, that happened 158 years ago. Great Impressionistic music by this Frenchman has made a non-stop impact on classical music and jazz. Debussy's harmonies are heard often in those genres and sometimes in film scores as well.

Other composers on the list this week are Andre Previn, Eddie Sauter, Lowell Libermann, Dmitri Shostakovich, John Coltrane, Lennon and McCartney, and from two local musicians, Melissa Collard and Jacám Manricks. 3rd Streaming airs Tuesdays 1-3 PM and Thursdays 9:30-11:30 PM. Stream at kdrt.org

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