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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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The Audio Ecotone

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Join Eddy Owt as he explores the rich genre diversity, cross-breeding, and hybridizing in the back waters and tributaries of the past 100 years of music: rock, jazz, pop, r&b, soul, country, ska, electronica, J-Pop/C-Pop/K-Pop, afrobeat, and much more.

"We have a tropical situation where there are thousands of 'species' of music around and they're all constantly cross-breeding and hybridizing. It's very exciting, but you can't keep up with it easily." -- Brian Eno

Live Friday 3-4pm
Replays Sunday 4-5pm
DJ(s): 
Eddy Owt
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Na Mele O Hawai'i

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Join host Beth Post as she features the unique sounds of Hawaiian music — from early icons of island music to today's innovators — exploring styles, the history of the genre, and revered songs and performers.

Live Thursday 1-3pm
Replays Wednesday 10am-12pm, Saturday 11am-1pm
DJ(s): 
Beth Post
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Education Beat

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KDRT is proud to air EdSource’s new show, Education Beat: Getting to the heart of California schools.

From EdSource: 

"Join us each week as we cover everything from preschool to college, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines.   We want you to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves."

Live Monday 5:10-5:30pm
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A production of Ed Source
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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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Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
RayK
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Fallon O'Neill, Author of "Geist: Prelude" Recorded Mar 1st, 2019

Fri, 03/01/2019 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week author Fallon O'Neill was in the studio to discuss his book, Geist Prelude. An incredible interview about this young man and his journey as an author. Of course we also played some tunes relevant to the conversation.

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Live DiRT with The Crooked Jades on Friday, March 1 from 2:30 to 3:00

Wed, 02/27/2019 - 1:29pm | Peter Schiffman

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Join The Folk Brothers - Bill and Peter - when they welcome Bay Area-based string band The Crooked Jades to the KDRT studios.  Founded in 1996, The Jades have been on a two decade mission to revitalize old-time string band music for our modern era.   The Crooked Jades are currently touring their latest album - "Empathy Moves The Water", their 7th album, but first in a decade - which features a mix of traditional as well as original ballads and tunes.  They will also be appearing at The Palms in Winters that same evening (March 1). 

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Davisville, Feb. 25, 2019: Yolo County wants to know your priorities

Wed, 02/27/2019 - 5:43am | Bill Buchanan

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You probably don’t spend much time thinking about the government of Yolo County. Even so, the county does things we need them to do—in areas like public health, the environment, the jail and roads—and decides policies that govern the area. So, the work matters. This spring the county is working on its plan to guide the next few years, and they want your ideas and suggestions on what should be in that plan. Today’s guest, county Supervisor Don Saylor, talks about the information they’d like to get, and how they’ll use it.

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Jazz After Dark February 26 2019

Tue, 02/26/2019 - 7:56pm | Don Shor

On Jazz After Dark tonight! Extended sets: Diane Schuur – Cry Me a River. John Coltrane & Hank Mobley – On It. Miles Davis – Concierto de Aranjuez. Buddy Tate & Abdullah Abrahim – Just You, Just Me. Abdullah Ibrahim – All Day & All Night Long. Herb Alpert & Hugh Masakela – Kalahari Nights.  Diane Schuur & Maynard Ferguson – Just One of Those Things.

 

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The Music of the 2019 Oscar Nominees Feb 22nd, 2019

Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Playing selections from this years Acadamy Award Nominees  .

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Jazz After Dark February 19 2019

Tue, 02/19/2019 - 7:50pm | Don Shor

For this 400th episode of Jazz After Dark, featuring some of the great jazz artists of the 20th century. Performances from 1928 to 1999, including:

Hadda Brooks, Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins & Stanley Black, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis, Mongo Santamaria, Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra & Quincy Jones, Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis

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Divine Intervention Strikes - February 18, 2019

Tue, 02/19/2019 - 12:52pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention strikes this week with (as expected) new music from Cherry Glazerr, Bob Mould, Sunflower Bean, Mercury Rev, and more... and, of course, Vinyl Vespers. See the playlist and stream the show via the program page.

 

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Jazz After Dark February 12 2019

Tue, 02/12/2019 - 7:34pm | Don Shor

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Coming up at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark: Dianne Reeves, Stan Kenton And His Orchestra, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Donald Byrd, Charlie Rouse, Herbie Mann, Abbey Lincoln, Andy Bey, Houston Person

Photo clockwise from upper left: Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Andy Bey, Abbey Lincoln.

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Davisville, Feb. 11, 2019: Standup comedy in Davis with Ean and Erick

Mon, 02/11/2019 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

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Ean Kimura & Erick Fierro, both second-year students at UC Davis, are part of the standup comedy scene in Davis. It’s not a big scene—Yelp’s list of 10 top comedy clubs in Davis stops at nine entries, and lists just one location that's actually in town—but we learn more about it on today’s show. We also talk about why Fierro and Kimura enjoy making people laugh, the UC Davis standup comedy club (possibly the same one Hasan Minhaj started), what makes good standup comedy, what happens when you bomb onstage, and more, including the t-shirt cannon bit they presented on the first edition of their KDVS campus radio station show In the Meantime (8 a.m. Mondays).

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Divine Intervention Strikes - February 11, 2019

Mon, 02/11/2019 - 5:52pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention strikes this week with more new music—a lot of rock & pop with a hefty sprinkling of jazz and experimental sounds: Toro y Moi, Cloud Seeder, Ben LaMar Gay, Mozes & the Firstborn, Angel Bat Dawid, John Barera & Will Martin, and much more—plus Vinyl Vespers. See the playlist and stream the show via the program page.

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