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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

Sounds So Sweet

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Host Wayne Hagen takes a lively look at sweet sounds of jug band music, past and present.

Live Tuesday 1-2pm
Replays Monday 10-11pm, Friday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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3rd Streaming

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Coined in 1957 by Brandeis University professor Gunther Schuller, “Third Stream” is a term used to describe the synthesis of classical and jazz. Join DJ Gary Chew to discover some Third Stream sounds for yourself. 

Live Monday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
Gary Chew
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Cowboy Tracks

Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic Western roots music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, Old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, Western Swing bands, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.

 

Live Wednesday 1-2pm
Replays Sunday 2-3pm
DJ(s): 
Nancy Flagg
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Cowboy Tracks
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E-Town

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E-Town, taped before a live audience in Boulder, Colorado, features today’s top folk and Americana artists, along with information and discussions on the environment and conservation. Host Nick Forster nimbly walks the line between musician and radio journalist, playing guitar, mandolin, or lap steel with musical guests and then switching gears to engage artists in conversation. Co-host Helen Forster lends her voice to both the spoken and musical portions of the show.

Live Saturday 10-11am
Homepage URL: 
E-Town on the Web
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Sea Change Radio

Sea Change KDRT

Sea Change Radio is a nationally syndicated program that covers the shift to social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Live Friday 2:30-3pm
Homepage URL: 
Sea Change Radio on the Web
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Nancy Northrup visits Listening Lyrics Friday August 19, 2016 at 4:00PM

Wed, 08/17/2016 - 10:11am | Pieter Pastoor

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Nancy Northrup visits KDRT

Singer-songwriter Nancy Northrup has been greatly influenced through the years by her country, gospel, and folk roots in Kentucky and Tennessee. Her Kentucky relatives were on the gospel circuit throughout the south as founders of The Edmonton Quartet. Nancy spent each summer traveling with them as they sang at gospel music events throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. They would pull a very young, wide-eyed little girl onto the stage in front of thousands of people to sing some old time gospel...and that little girl's life was changed forever. Nancy is also related to the founding members of the down-home southern rockabilly group, The Kentucky Headhunters. Nancy knew from an early age that music was her passion and thanks her Kentucky cousins for being the musical inspiration in her life, along with her grandmother who was blind and a prolific pianist. She is also inspired by Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Judy Collins, and Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nancy is active in the Bay Area and Sacramento music scene, performing at local establishments, as well as festivals.

Visit Nancy at http://www.nancynorthrup.com

For those not in the listening area this show will be streamed live at www.kdrt.org

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Jazz After Dark August 16, 2016

Tue, 08/16/2016 - 7:51pm | Don Shor

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Jazz After Dark, 8 pm: soul jazz, hard bop, a little funk, and more tonight!

  • Stan Kenton And His Orchestra
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Blue Mitchell
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
  • Shirley Scott
  • Jonny Lewis Quartet
  • Gerry Mulligan
  • Joe Williams
  • Winston Walls & Brother Jack McDuff
  • Ron Carter
  • Linstead

 

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Listening Lyrics goes on a road trip - Aug 12th, 2016

Fri, 08/12/2016 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Listen in (listen NOW) as we explore some music about travel and road trips. With a tip of the cap to VINYL day. Some great songs will fill this hour - so if you are on a road trip when your done listening you will be 60 miles closer to your destination.

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Bruce Salmon on Live DiRT (8/12 at 1pm)

Wed, 08/10/2016 - 3:29pm | Eunah

Bruce Salmon

Dug Deep will host New Orleans native, Texas raised jazz/blues singer/songwriter Bruce Salmon. Bruce is a veteran of the Austin music scene, and began performing as a solo artist in 2012, releasing his first solo album “A Barrel of Monkeys”, in 2014. His music is steeped in the Texas songwriting tradition, as well as New Orleans jazz, funk, and blues. More recently he’s studied ancestral folk music from Eastern Europe. Bruce plays bass, guitars, keyboards, and brass in a broad range of styles and bands, ranging from funk/rock (Joe Rockhead), Texas punk (Alejandro Escovedo), Klezmer/Balkan (The Inheritance/ Mazel Tov Cocktail Hour), and street brass band (Minor Mishap Marching Band). Bruce’s most recent CD is called Dreaming While Awake. Bruce will be appearing Friday August 12th at Berryessa Brewing in Winters from 5-8:00 pm
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Lance Canales & The Flood on Live DiRT (8/11 at 4:30pm)

Wed, 08/10/2016 - 12:09pm | Eunah

Lance Canales

KDRT broadcaster Bill Wagman, (one half of the Folk Brothers) will host Lance Canales and the Flood live in the KDRT studio on Thursday, August 11th, beginning at 4:30 pm. Lance Canales & The Flood are a roots-blues influenced Americana trio from Fresno, California, where Canales lived the life that so many songs have been written about since the birth of roots music – hard labor, one room shacks and taunting ghosts whispering of a better life. Canales’ guttural vocals combine a hard-edged storytelling approach beneath a stripped down, foot-stomping, acoustic instrumentation. In February 2013, Canales released the single “Plane Crash at Los Gatos: Deportee” (a poem) written by Woody Guthrie in 1948 and labeled by Saint Louis Magazine as a, “gut-wrenchingly beautiful rendition.” The song has been covered by many stellar musicians, but what makes this version so important is that it reveals the names of the Mexican nationals that were simply dubbed as “deportees” in the original news article.
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Jazz After Dark August 09, 2016

Tue, 08/09/2016 - 7:52pm | Don Shor

Jazz from the 60s and 70s tonight! Great vocals, jazz guitar, and more.

  • Rosemary Clooney
  • Chet Baker
  • Anita O'Day
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Hideo Shiraki
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra
  • George Benson
  • Paul Desmond, Modern Jazz Quartet
  • Billy Butler
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Howard McGhee
  • Tigran Hamasyan
  • Toots Thielemans

 

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Davisville, Aug. 8, 2016: Understanding Why Davis Has the Restaurants it Has (first aired in 2012)

Mon, 08/08/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan
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Gary Chew: Third Streaming (Friday 8/5)

Fri, 08/05/2016 - 10:57am | Eunah

Gary Chew: Third Streaming

No longer shall you go without hearing Third Stream music if you listen to Gary's record show. That's particularly so when he kicks off this week's program with “Non più andrai,” a bass aria from Mozart's opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” but played by a brass ensemble. The Modern Jazz Quartet gets all bluesy with musical ideas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Oh yes, some really good, but creepy film music is scheduled as well: that being compositions by Angelo Badalamenti. It's music from the David Lynch film, “Mulholland Drive,”and the zany but dark television series, “Twin Peaks.” The mood gets a turn around with chipper melodies from Kurt Weill's “The Three Penny Opera.” Check the KDRT website from replays times ... or catch GARY CHEW: THIRD STREAMING any old time … as pulled off the K-dirt podcast shelf. You won't be sorry.

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Let's Protest - the musical Alexander Hamilton VS protest songs today

Fri, 08/05/2016 - 10:26am | Pieter Pastoor

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Todays show plays protest songs> Just like Hamilton was

The broadway musical Alexander Hamilton is a huge hit. The younger generation has grabbed on to this amazing story told in a rap/hip hop way. It's really about protest and in America we have not stopped protesting. So today's show I will play some known and not so well known protest songs from around the world. I think we all know that the voice of protest runs deep in song.  The following description is from the site https://musictodiefor.wordpress.com/50-greatest-protest-songs/. Some but not all of the songs were also selected from this site

– A song that has a purpose. A song that doesn’t confine itself to commenting on or bemoaning the ills of the world, but seeks in some small way to change things. It may do this by calling directly for something to happen – “free Nelson Mandela”, by informing us, by appealing to our hearts and our emotions, or by challenging commonly held ideas.

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Jazz After Dark August 02, 2016

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 7:44pm | Don Shor

Coming up tonight! Some blues, jazz guitar, a little funk, some bossa nova, and more.

  • Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges
  • Chico Hamilton
  • Stan Getz
  • George Benson
  • Dave Brubeck
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Bill Harris
  • Nancy Wilson & The Great Jazz Trio
  • Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet
  • Bireli Lagrene
  • Cassandra Wilson
  • The Rosenberg Trio

 

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