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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

Imagining Yolo Davis

Imagining Yolo Davis

Imagining Yolo Davis interviews citizens (imaginers) of this community who are imagining projects that will affect all of us for the greater good. From recycling, music, community groups to park clean-up groups ... the list goes on — private imaginers using their talents to enrich our community.

What makes these imaginers tick and what is so important? The health and well being of our community.

Live Friday 5:30-6pm
Replays Tuesday 5-5:30pm, Sunday 12-12:30pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
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Album of the Week

With a rotating cast of hosts and in-depth exploration of entire albums, Album of the Week brings a fantastically fun hour to the airwaves.

Live Wednesday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 1-2pm
DJ(s): 
Don Shor, Pieter Pastoor, David A. Reynolds, Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Darrick, Nancy Flagg, Wayne Hagen, Alison B, Ned
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Twang Thang

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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
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Heart to Heart

Heart to Heart KDRT program Davis California

Nothing brings greater rewards than a life filled with love and care for people and the world around us. With Heart to Heart, host "Dr. G" inspires and teaches listeners to live life richly and lightly. To ask a question on the show, call 1.530.792.1648 during the live broadcast. Check the Davis Enterprise to for guests and weekly topics.

Live Wednesday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Dr. Gitane
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IMPLOSION

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IMPLOSION is hosted by Nick Saloman, front person of The Bevis Frond. Born and raised in London, England, Nick started buying records as a small child in the late 1950s and began going to gigs and playing in bands as a teen in the late 60s. IMPLOSION is simply an hour of Nick playing the music that he loves (psychedelia, rock, folk, beat, jazz, soul, punk, and more), with a bit of chat thrown in for good measure.

Live Wednesday 5-6pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Nick Saloman
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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 31, 2023

Thu, 08/31/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today: More on cool season vegetables, flowers in August, planting in summer, sphinx moths, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 29, 2023

Tue, 08/29/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Six longer pieces tonight: Artie Shaw, Tommy Flanagan, Art Pepper, Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes, Chet Baker with Jim Hall and Hubert Laws, and Lee Konitz and the Brazilian Band.

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Anton Barbeau plus summer songs on the latest Electric Compost Heap

Mon, 08/28/2023 - 8:04am | kdrtradio

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Electric Compost Heap airs live on Fridays, but thanks to the KDRT archives you can listen to the Aug. 25 program anytime for the next couple of weeks. This time out, DJ Dug Deep spins plenty of summer tunes -- fall isn't here yet, y' know -- plus a couple of tracks by Anton Barbeau, who just happened to be playing in Davis last Friday night at Delta of Venus. Dug also wants you to know that the official color of this week's program is magenta!

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Kate Laddish explains In Home Supportive Services and Democracy Winters

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Kate Laddish has many interests and passions, and today she talks with us about two: Yolo County In Home Supportive Services, better known as IHSS, and Democracy Winters, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving democracy.

Both organizations deserve a second look, and here is an opportunity as Kate shares her insights into both.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 08/25/2023
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Davis Garden Show, Aug. 24, 2023

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program: Brassicas we plant now, barriers for tree rats and squirrels, sphinx moths, tips for growing orchids, citrus that are ok in pots, and more.

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On this week’s Heart to Heart, Dr. G remembers the influential ‘Dr. Love’

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 11:14am | kdrtradio

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“Today I’d like to talk with you about someone who has been called the granddaddy of motivational speakers on television,” says Heart to Heart host Dr. Gitane. “At one time he had five of his books on the New York Times bestsellers list.”

On her program for this week, Dr. G invites listeners to learn more about “this fine person, who I had the pleasure of meeting, by the way, umpteen years ago” — Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, more commonly known as Leo Buscaglia, and also as “Dr. Love.”

Penguin Random House says his first book, Love (pictured), was a continual bestseller for more than 20 years.

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Celtic Songlines starts this week with a 16th century ballad by Kerfuffle

Wed, 08/23/2023 - 8:49am | kdrtradio

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On this week's Celtic Songlines you hear the band Kerfuffle, starting with the 16th century English ballad “Castleton Carol” from the band’s To The Ground album (pictured) of 2008, followed by Louise Mulcahy with a medley of jigs and reels, Drónán, the legendary Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan, harpist/vocalist Mary O'Hara, the band Runa, a raven tune from Cuélebre, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends, the all-star band Usher's Island and Arty McGlynn.

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Jazz After Dark, Aug. 22, 2023

Tue, 08/22/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Mellow sax and West Coast cool tonight: Sonny Clark, Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Oliver Nelson (Jimmy Forrest sax), Roland Kirk, Benny Carter, Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, and Stanley Turrentine.

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Twang Thang brings you Greater Americana every Monday at 6

Tue, 08/22/2023 - 8:37am | kdrtradio

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“Americana music didn't just show up one day — the genre has evolved from deep and varied country music roots,” says Twang Thang host Dirk Brazil. The show “explores both the old and the new and a bunch of stuff from the in between.”

Like this week’s show, which starts with Joe Ely’s “Whenever Kindness Fails” from his 1992 album Love and Danger.

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Davisville, Aug. 21, 2023: Editor loves the Aggie, wants students to love it too as she changes it

Mon, 08/21/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Sonora Slater is the 2023-24 editor of the California Aggie, whose days as a printed newspaper for students at UC Davis are largely over. It prints 4,000 copies each Thursday during the academic year, and Slater says a lot end up in recycling bins, not in the hands of students. The Aggie has a larger presence online, but many of UC Davis’ 40,000 students don’t seem to know it exists.

Slater intends to change that. She wants to draw students back in, through new products — such as a 15-20 minute podcast twice a week, timed to fit students’ bike commutes — and a larger focus on stories that interest students, not only the journalists. Plus use of Instagram takeovers, use of social media for updating news, new events with student groups, maybe a caption contest ... she has a list. We talk about all this today on Davisville.

The photo shows Slater atop the Hutchison parking garage at UC Davis, a scene recreated on her tote bag.

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