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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

Classical Excursions

Greg LaTraille

Classical radio programs often focus on well-known light classics and ignore challenging and imaginative masterworks, especially from the rich repertoire of 20th century music, which is very diverse. This results in listeners who are unaware of many wonderful works. Excursions will present short and longer works by famous as well as less known composers, with insightful commentary by a composer with years of experience in radio, classical marketing, and music education.

Live on the first, third and occasional fifth Friday of the month.  

Live Friday 11am-1pm
Replays Sunday 9-11am
DJ(s): 
Greg LaTraille
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Davis Garden Show

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Nursery pro Don Shor has been gardening and selling plants in Davis for more than three decades.

Join Don and co-host Lois Richter as they discuss and answer your questions on all things for the garden.

Submit a question (or a brag!) to DavisGardenShow@gmail.com 

Live Thursday 12-1pm
Replays Saturday 9-10am
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter, Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Davis Garden Show on the Web
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Reggae Cruise

Reggae music from over 100 nations highlighting the global reach and how the components have contributed to its evolution with a focus on the 21st century. No dancehall. 

Live Friday 11pm-Saturday 12am
Homepage URL: 
Reggae Cruise
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Sonic Rehab

Join DJ Jojo Johanssen as he takes you for a two-hour ride through his eclectic tastes. Expect the unexpected, from jazz to electronica, latin to classic rock, pop, disco, soul, and much more. Ease into your week with some Sonic Rehab on Monday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. pacific time. Find the Sonic Rehab archive here: https://archive.org/details/@andrew_hird! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Drop Jojo a line at djjojo530@hotmail.com

Live Monday 1-3pm
Replays Sunday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
Jojo Johanssen
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That's Life

Lois Richter’s format for That’s Life is mostly interviews. Recurring topics include Davis activities and groups; work and life choices; philosophy and theory; plus birding, cooking, art, and other passions. Lois occasionally breaks into music — from ballads to the slack key sounds of Hawaii to golden oldies rock 'n' roll — but mostly there is just talk.

To suggest a topic for discussion or a person to interview, text Lois or leave a message in the comments here.

Live Tuesday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter
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Jazz After Dark December 11 2018

Tue, 12/11/2018 - 7:43pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Five extended sets:

Artie Shaw --  Concerto for Clarinet [1940],

Cannonball Adderley Quintet --  This Here (live, 1959),

Chet Baker --  Portrait In Black and White (live, 1987),

Dorothy Donegan --  Things Ain't What They Used To Be (live, 1991),

Gabor Szabo --  Mizrab (live, 1972)

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Jazz After Dark December 04 2018

Tue, 12/04/2018 - 7:18pm | Don Shor

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: bebop and Brubeck with a twist of reggae! Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker's All-Stars, Frank Morgan & Gigi Gryce, Yusef Lateef, Ernestine Anderson, Frank Morgan, Big Miller & Tommy Banks, Monty Alexander, Dave Brubeck.

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

 

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Davisville, Dec. 3, 2018: Robin Affrime helped build CommuniCare into a significant Yolo healthcare asset

Mon, 12/03/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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CommuniCare, which began as the Davis Free Clinic in the 1970s, provides primary healthcare and related services to about 10 percent of Yolo County’s population. If people can’t pay, they still get care. How did a clinic that used to fit in a converted house downtown grow into a set of healthcare centers that are critically important to local healthcare? Robin Affrime is part of the answer. She was CEO of CommuniCare for 19 years until retiring this fall, after starting there as a volunteer 35 years ago. On today’s Davisville she talks about CommuniCare, what it does, how it grew, the role it plays in local healthcare, and offers her ideas on how she’d approach the perennial problem in U.S. healthcare: how to pay for it all.

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Juan Miranda in the studio, recorded on Nov 30th, 2018

Fri, 11/30/2018 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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We covered a lot of topics with this very special guest.

Juan Miranda is a recent Ph.D. of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, focusing in Spanish, Southern Cone and Latinx Literature, Cinema and Culture. He is a radio host for KDVS 90.3’s Correveydile (Every other Monday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.), an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Spanish and Portuguese Review, and an activist in various non-governmental institutions. In addition, he is a writer (including the plays ¡Mama! Grandes Funerales and The Karma of Fools), actor (La Fronteriza Theatre Company; La Poltrona; The Art Theater of Davis), and a performer in the Sammy award winning musical project group Bomba Fried Rice.

Juan and Listening Lyrics encourage you to read Julio Cortazar's book, "Todos los fuegos el fuego" (All Fires the Fire) (1966) as discussed on this broadcast.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 11/30/2018
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Jazz After Dark November 27 2018

Tue, 11/27/2018 - 7:51pm | Don Shor

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Traditional and mainstream jazz, old and new, 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark!

Gabor Szabo, Bix Beiderbecke & Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars, Sidney Bechet, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Bolling Big Band, Zoot Sims, Bob Schultz & His Chicago Rhythm Kings, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Photo clockwise from upper left: Sidney Bechet, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Zoot Sims, Claude Bolling.

 

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Davisville, Nov. 26, 2018: Listening to a survivor, and the story, of Jonestown (repeat from 2014)

Mon, 11/26/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

In August 2014, author Julia Scheeres and Thom Bogue spoke at the Avid Reader about her book, “A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown,” and his memories of the remote South American camp of the Peoples Temple where 918 people were killed or committed suicide one day in November 1978. Bogue, then a teenager and now mayor of Dixon, was one of the relatively few survivors. Scheeres’ critically praised book draws on previously unavailable recordings and records from the temple, which once had a major presence in San Francisco. They talk about it in this 2014 interview on Davisville.

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Jazz After Dark November 20 2018

Tue, 11/20/2018 - 7:08pm | Don Shor

Coming up at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark, here’s the lineup:

Dianne Reeves -- I'm All Smiles;

Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet -- Almost Like Being in Love;

Art Pepper/Conte Candoli -- Old Devil Moon;

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong -- Autumn In New York;

Cannonball Adderley -- Love For Sale;

Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges -- Villes Ville is the Place, Man;

Betty Roché -- Where Or When;

Ben Webster -- Over The Rainbow;

Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery -- Night Train;

Abbey Lincoln -- Brother Can You Spare A Dime;

Hank Jones -- Emily.

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

 

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Vintage Blues Vinyl with Tari, Recorded Nov 16th, 2018

Fri, 11/16/2018 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Remember sitting up all night with friends listening to vinyl. Thats what this hour is about. Listening to Tari's vintage vinyl blues collection and some talking with Tari and friend Lee. This show embraces the concept of community radio.

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KDRT Welcomes Visiting Singer-Songwriter Lew Hopson This Saturday Noon - 1 PM On Silver Nine Volt Heart

Thu, 11/15/2018 - 10:52pm | Diane Crumley

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Lew Hopson visits KDRT Saturday Nov. 17th on Silver Nine Volt Heart

DJ Rodriguez is thrilled to be hosting Lew Hopson, in-studio guest this Saturday when we will be treated to what Hopson calls Brand New, Old School Funk, Soul and R&B.  Hopson is a man with many hats including singer/songwriter, author/poet, and actor in films and television, to name a few.  For those of you who have been long-time listeners to DJ Rodriguez, you may have heard several tracks from Hopson's " When U Pick Up Da Funk" album played on The Grapevine show that aired for many years on KDRT.  Lew Hopson grew up in Chicago listening to WVON radio, and was influenced by Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Smokey Robinson and Etta James.  He produced When U Pick Up Da Funk and the more recent Goody Bag albums with his friends at RudeLab Records and remains grateful to our grassroots community station for airing them on several of our shows.   

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Jazz After Dark November 13 2018

Tue, 11/13/2018 - 7:30pm | Don Shor

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Coming up at 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark! Traditional and mainstream jazz, bootleg Ella from East Berlin, and Mary Lou Williams as our featured artist tonight.

Benny Goodman, Jo Stafford, Duke Ellington, Sweet Emma & Her Dixieland Boys, Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band, Mary Lou Williams & Ben Webster, Mary Lou Williams, Milt Jackson, James Moody, Ella Fitzgerald, Dick Wellstood, Jerry Fielding, Pat Longo Super Big Band. Photo, clockwise from upper left: Mary Lou Williams, Benny Goodman, Milt Jackson, James Moody.

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