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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.

This Way Out is an award-winning nationally syndicated show that gives voice to the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender movement. Fighting for LGBT equality and rights since 1988, the program shows no signs of slowing down!

Live Tuesday 11:30pm-Wednesday 12am

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This Way Out on the Web

Na Mele O Hawai'i

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

In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm

Replays Tuesday 11am-12pm

DJ(s):

Karen Leyse

Democracy Now!

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

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Democracy Now! on the Web

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

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Reggae Cruise

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Davisville, Sept. 5, 2016: The Byrds and After with Gene Parsons (part 2)

Mon, 09/05/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today we conclude our interview with Gene Parsons, 72, who was part of The Byrds from 1968 to 1972 and performs with David Hayes in Davis this Saturday, Sept. 10 (here's part 1 of the interview). We hear more about his songs, The Byrds, the note-bending Stringbender device he invented in the 1960s, a steam engine he built in his shop, new music he’s recording with Hayes and the Mendocino Quartet, a long-ago trick in a Yucca Valley bar & grill that tapped his skills with an acetylene torch, and what's coming next. “We have a few other performances that are on the books. We don’t do a lot. We’re kind of basically semi-retired in the music biz,” he says. “We’re kind of just letting it unfold.”

Album of the Week - A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado by Os Mutantes - Sep 1

Thu, 09/01/2016 - 4:53pm | Dug Deep

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Dug Deep hosts this week's edition of Album of the Week, featuring A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado, the third album by Brazilian rock band Os Mutantes. The album was originally released in 1970. The title translates to The Divine Comedy or I Am a Bit Disconnected. "I am a bit disconnected" in this sense means "I feel a little spaced out." The album as a whole is characterized by a mix of psychedelic and religious imagery. Os Mutantes were influenced by a blend of 60s rock -- the Ventures to the Beatles, whose Sgt. Pepper expanded their understaning of what recorded music could achieve. Os Mutantes were subversive, fun, poetic, melodic, playful, noisy, and much more. They also became a part of the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Ze. Tune in Sep 1 at 5 pm PT for a strange musical journey on Album of the Week.

Jazz After Dark August 30, 2016

Tue, 08/30/2016 - 7:44pm | Don Shor

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Kansas City jazz: from blues to swing to bebop and more.

Count Basie
Georgie Auld And His Orchestra
Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra
Ben Webster
Charlie Parker
Oscar Peterson with Lester Young
Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges
Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald
Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jimmy Rushing, Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton & Oliver Jackson
Bobby Watson
Jo Jones
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny

Gary Chew: Third Streaming (Friday 9/2)

Tue, 08/30/2016 - 3:35pm | Eunah

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Third Streaming surges to the air this week with a very big band arrangement of Sonny Rollins' tune called Airegin. With a Piaf-like voice, Karrin Allyson sings two songs a la francaise: Bud Powell's Parisian Thoroughfare and Charles Dumont's Des Histories. Jacques Loussier's Trio tips its jazz hat to J.S. Bach. Then bringing it on home, Charlie Haden's Quartet West does Alan Broadbent's The Long Goodbye; the New York Woodwind Quintet performs a familiar Darius Milhaud suite and Gary will also play tracks from the brand new soundtrack for the Michael Fassbender’s latest film, The Light Between Oceans, composed by Alexandre Desplat. The movie opens September 2nd. It's music guaranteed to make your ears sing; both of them ... in harmony.

Album Review: All People (self-titled)

Sun, 08/28/2016 - 9:04pm | Scott Korinke

All People

The self-titled LP All People is the second full-length release from the independent bandcamp rock group in as many years. Lasting just under a half-hour, the nine tracks hit hard, fast, and with purpose, pulling together emotional themes about mental anxiety and feeling out of place while staying positive and uplifting. The group works very well together, managing to convey their emotions effectively through the inspired combination of pop-punk and dreamy, synth-heavy alternative sounds. The first two tracks on the LP, "Slow" and "Plain Essential Language," are about being unable to sleep and being misunderstood by the world around them, respectively. The two tracks bring to mind Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation album in both theme and sound. "Naught," the third song, is quite the standout, beginning with a funky guitar beat and ending with one of the more memorable choruses, with lead singer Daniel Ray pleadingly asking "Was it all for Naught?"

Listening Lyrics celebrates 50 years of Paul McCartney covers Aug 26th, 2016

Fri, 08/26/2016 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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It was 50 years ago today that Paul McCartney and the Beatles performed their last live concert in front of a paying audience. That was in New York City. To celebrate this event we are playing covers of McCartney songs within a very wide genre of musical tastes. Enjoy the hour now.

Jazz After Dark August 23, 2016

Tue, 08/23/2016 - 7:28pm | Don Shor

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Remembering Toots Thielemans tonight on Jazz After Dark: virtuoso on jazz harmonica and guitar, and whistler. Some Duke Ellington; Blue Mitchell on trumpet. Herb Ellis and Stuff Smith play the blues. Gabor Szabo on guitar, vocals by Ella, a little 70’s funk from James Moody, and Gerry Mulligan. And Happy 90th to Tony Bennett!

Davisville, Aug. 22, 2016: From the Desert, to the Byrds, to a Concert in Davis (part 1)

Mon, 08/22/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Gene Parsons, son of a classical pianist, grew up in the Mojave desert, practicing banjo and guitar in an empty 10,000-gallon water tank on his father’s homesteaded ranch. One day, as a teenager playing banjo in a music shop, he was invited to join a recording session by Gib Guilbeau—a Cajun fiddle player who would later play with Parsons in at least three bands. The experience set Parsons on a path that led to him playing in The Byrds from 1968 to 1972. On Sept. 10 he joins David Hayes, an equally accomplished musician, in concert at the Davis Odd Fellows Hall (that's Hayes on the left in the photo, with Parsons), and today we present the first of a two-part interview with Parsons (here's part 2). The conversation includes memories of fellow Byrd Clarence White, Gram Parsons, and Sneaky Pete Kleinow; his songs Gunga Din and Yesterday's Train; and the “oddball story” about how a kid who had wanted to play fiddle grew up to play drums for one of the top bands of the 1960s, contributing to its revival after most of its original members had left.

Gary Chew: Third Streaming (Friday 8/19)

Fri, 08/19/2016 - 9:10am | Eunah

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Music from Bernstein's West Side Story and On The Town, Jane Ira Bloom's More Than Sinatra, plus Sinatra singing Lonely Town -- that's just part of this week's program on Gary Chew: 3rd Streaming. Other great stuff includes a beautiful composition never recorded until now, written by Johnny Mandel called THE MOON SONG played by just 2 dudes: Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny. Eddie Daniels will blow you away performing Jorge Callendrelli's CONCERTO FOR JAZZ CLARINET & ORCHESTRA. And for plenty good measure really turn up your headphones for a chamber trio by Claude Debussy. Then, Gary replays a track he recently programmed featuring Diana Krall singing CALIFORNIA DREAMING. Who her back-up singers are on this session will stoke you. All this might be more than you can handle in only 58 minutes of KDRT radio time. Check it out at 3pm Friday, 10pm this Saturday, or at 1pm the following Wednesday afternoon on 95.7 or streaming at www.kdrt.org. It’s ALL music to your ears … totally.

Get Involved: Attend Our Next Orientation, Aug 17

Wed, 08/17/2016 - 5:30pm | Jess Goddésse

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Are you curious about community media? Interested in getting involved at KDRT-FM Grassroots Radio or Davis Community Television? You're in luck, because you're invited to our next orientation. Each and every month, we hold orientation meetings to answer your questions about broadcast and behind-the-scenes opportunities and internships at Davis Media Access, the home of KDRT and DCTV. So mark your calendars for Autust 17, 2016, and plan to attend! The fun starts at 6:30 p.m. To RSVP, visit DavisMedia.org.

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