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ABOUT US

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.

Roots, Shoots and Leaves' DJ Tree has a theory of music that involves a tree. Suffice it to say that it involves a trinity — an exploration of themes and connections among recording artists — and otherwise very few boundaries. Listen for music old and new, known and unknown. And if you listen long enough, you may experience some musical enlightenment.

Live Tuesday 6-8pm

Replays Saturday 5-7pm

DJ(s):

Tree Kilpatrick

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 Saturday 11am-1pm

DJ(s):

Beth Post

Live Tracks

LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 776 original programs by September 2026. Join me on my quest to reach show number 777. Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm

Replays Saturday 9-11pm

DJ(s):

Jim Buchanan

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

Classical Excursions

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

More programs ...

Davisville, Sept. 3, 2018: What is housing in Davis worth these days?

Mon, 09/03/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today I welcome back Steve Boschken, an expert in Davis real estate, for a talk about the Davis market, trends, when the next recession might arrive, who’s buying houses in Davis, how the new rental housing in the works might affect demand, the number of houses listed for more than $1 million (1 in 4), and if building small homes would help make housing more affordable in Davis … and whether voters would allow them. He says he knows an architect who has considered it in Davis.

Cannabis and Music with Rob Read. Aug 31st, 2018

Fri, 08/31/2018 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Rob Read joins us this week to talk to us about cannabis. Cannabis and music have a relationship so we also played some related music. Rob is the CEO of the F Street Dispensary in Davis which will open the end of September. Rob is a life long resident of Davis, I might even add a proud Davisitte. Listening Lyrics used the article "Use Weed To Listen To Music" by Andry Bourgue as a base of talking points.

Jazz After Dark August 28 2018

Tue, 08/28/2018 - 7:27pm | Don Shor

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Featuring soulful sax tonight on Jazz After Dark. Live at 8 pm on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. First we'll hear from Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Ash, Sonny Clark, Chet Baker, Maynard Ferguson. Then sax artists John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Art Pepper, Eddie Harris, Pharoah Sanders & William Henderson, and Stanley Turrentine.

Photo: clockwise from upper left -- John Coltrane, Stanley Turrentine, Art Pepper, Pharaoh Sanders.

Jazz After Dark August 21 2018

Tue, 08/21/2018 - 7:26pm | Don Shor

Soul jazz tonight! 1955 – 1969. Cornell Dupree, Herbie Nichols, Horace Parlan, Sam Lazar Trio, Gene Ammons, Eddie Harris, Horace Silver, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Duke Pearson, and guitar by Cassandra Wilson.

WHAT ROUGH BEAST on Listening Lyrics August 24th, 2018 4:00PM

Tue, 08/21/2018 - 10:14am | Pieter Pastoor

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what Rough Beast visits KDRT

What Rough Beast, An exceptional fusion band. This very unique band is back with a killer new single "Some Odd Years" that will have it's debut on Listening Lyrics. The talent of each individual member shines through in their music. What does that mean, a depth of sound rarely heard. What Rough Beast is Sacramento based, but their sound is not limited to one geographic location. Members are:

Jon Shapiro - keyboards, Keith Filson - guitar, David Martin - guitar, Bryant Whaley - Bass, Jesse Escobar - Hand percussion, Bob Gibeault - Drums, Mike Rice - Flute/saxophone.

For those outside the listening area this broadcast will be streamed live on www.KDRT.org.

Davisville, Aug. 20, 2018: For new council members, an agreement with UC Davis is a first priority

Mon, 08/20/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida and Councilman Dan Carson joined the Davis City Council in July after winning election in June. On today’s program they talk about their first priorities, what the city needs from UC Davis (and perhaps what UC Davis wants from the city), the difficulty of engaging a largely disinterested public … and, because this is still a town where people contact council members over concerns as micro-local as barbecue smoke, the best ways to reach them, and how soon you'll hear back if you do.

Sam Nelson back in our studio, Listening Lyrics, Aug 17th, 2018

Fri, 08/17/2018 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Listen now as we talk with Sam Nelson on his second appearance with us.. Sam Nelson is based in Sacramento. For Samual, music is the one thing that lets him truly live in the moment and feel catharsis. While performing his main goal is to express the truest meaning of the song. Sam sings 2 originals in this hour both songs do the title of this show justice, check out those lyrics. The last song Sam sings is a Nirvana cover "pennyroyal Tea" and he nailed it.

Jazz After Dark August 14 2018

Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:32pm | Don Shor

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Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: jazz bands and orchestras, and virtuoso piano. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Maynard Ferguson, Roy Haynes, Don Ellis Orchestra, Jerry Fielding, Claude Bolling, Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble, Wynton Marsalis, Marian McPartland with George Shearing, Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, Triosence, Cassandra Wilson.

Jazz After Dark August 07 2018

Tue, 08/07/2018 - 7:47pm | Don Shor

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Boogie woogie, blues, and mainstream jazz from musicians old and new tonight on Jazz After Dark! Bolyki Brothers, Pete Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum, Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry & Paul Gonsalves, Pepper Adams Quintet with Thad Jones, Eriko Ishihara, Jimmy Rosenberg, Bria Skonberg, Harold Mabern Trio.

8 pm Tuesday.

Replays Monday 11pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, and Wednesday 10-11pm.

Davisville, Aug. 6, 2018: Decades later, WW II infantry vet Francis Resta describes the nightmare of combat

Mon, 08/06/2018 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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About 16 million Americans served in World War II. Today, 73 years after that war ended, perhaps 3 percent of those veterans are alive. Among the survivors, an even smaller number lived through infantry combat during the war—and today’s guest is one of them. Francis Resta, who lives in Davis and was born in 1925, was a mortar-man and machine gunner in the 102nd Infantry Division, and fought in Europe. Today we talk about his experiences, living through “insane” and “endless” combat, post-traumatic stress disorder, why many combat vets shun the idea they’re heroes, and why he wants to talk about it all now.

*This episode was awarded First Place in "Radio/Audio – Non-Commercial: Public Affairs Program" at the San Francisco Press Club 2019 Awards Dinner.