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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.

 

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A Mix of Music

DJ Dave Reynolds takes you on a journey through the world of music.  

Live Friday 1-2pm
DJ(s): 
DJ Dave
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A Constant Grin

DJ Chris Mussen presents all things modern indie, from shoegaze to psychedelic, dream pop to space rock, lo-fi to indie folk. Whatever you prefer on your indie playlists, A Constant Grin is sure to keep you smiling.

Live Friday 2-2:30pm
Replays Saturday 7-7:30pm
DJ(s): 
Chris Mussen
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Crossing Continents

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm
Replays Sunday 12-2pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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Grist for the Chill

dave mccasey

Dave serves up a truly interesting mix of music with a focus on fingerstyle guitar and percussive groove as it relates to roots,  world fusion, jazz, funk, Latin and Brazilian music, and more.  

Live Thursday 11am-12pm
Replays Saturday 11pm-Sunday 12am
DJ(s): 
Dave Mcasey
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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
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Gary Chew
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Jazz After Dark January 05, 2016

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 7:00pm | Don Shor

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New Orleans and swing tonight! 1920s to the 1950s. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines * Sidney Bechet * Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet * Harry Roy & His Orchestra * Glenn Miller Orchestra * Earl Hines * Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday * Oscar Aleman * Earl Bostic * New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland * Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers * Pete Fountain * Ella Fitzgerald * Boots Randolph * Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

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Davisville, 1/4/16: Meet two of the Vanguard 10

Mon, 01/04/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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The “comments” section on the Davis Vanguard has evolved into a pretty good online discussion zone on various big issues affecting Davis. The opinions often go way beyond the couched language that sometimes passes for official discourse in town. Lately, the term “Vanguard 10” has emerged as a shorthand description of the most frequent commenters on the site … raising the question of whether they’re just a random handful of people who enjoy using the site, or instead represent the busiest end of what's emerging as one of the best online civic forums in town. Today we talk with two of the 10, Tia Will and Jeff Boone.

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New Years Eve special with Jesse and Pieter 12/31/15 5:00PM to 7:00PM

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 5:28pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Happy New Year from KDRT

Jesse and Pieter will give you two hours of "party" music on 12/31/15. The playlist is done, we are checking it twice and then blast of into 2016.

 

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Joe Hatamiya appears on Listening Lyrics Friday 1/1/16 at 4:00PM

Wed, 12/30/2015 - 2:18pm | Pieter Pastoor

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jon hatamiya visits KDRT

Trombonist, composer, and B.A.C. Endorsing Artist Jon Hatamiya is one of the most promising trombonists to come out of the Sacramento area and is rapidly making a name for himself on both the New York and California music scenes. He was recognized in the August 1st, 2011 edition of Jet Magazine as the only trombonist on Wynton Marsalis’s list of “Who’s Got Next”, which highlighted the next generation of emerging jazz artists. Jon also received a 2015 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award from ASCAP for his merits as a composer and arranger.

Still early in his career, Jon has already performed with a variety of artists reflecting his wide musical interests, including Dianne Reeves, James Moody, Taylor Eigsti, Stefon Harris, Dave Matthews Band, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, among others, and at venues such as Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, the Jazz Standard in New York, the Blue Whale in Los, Angeles, the Monterey and Montreal Jazz Festivals, Rose Hall and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Staples Center.

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Jazz After Dark December 29th, 2015

Tue, 12/29/2015 - 7:23pm | Don Shor

Featuring the music of Porgy & Bess tonight! An encore presentation. George Gershwin’s great jazz/folk opera was a commercial failure at the time, but it lived on and became an American classic spawning several jazz standards, including I Got Plenty of Nothin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and Summertime. Tonight we feature those and more, by: Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton, Oliver Jackson & Earl "Fatha" Hines * Aretha Franklin * Billie Holiday * Ray Charles * Mundell Lowe And His All Stars * Ella Fitzgerald & Russell Garcia * Richard Twardzik & Russ Freeman * Bernt Rosengren * Peggy Lee * Ahmad Jamal * Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia * Rahsaan Roland Kirk * Jim Hall & Pat Metheny

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Davisville, 12/21/15: As a boy, he sang on 'Charlie Brown Christmas'

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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This program first aired in March 2015, but we always knew we'd broadcast it at Christmas, too.

Fifty years ago David Willat, who was 11, was one of the half-dozen children who sang in the chorus on Vince Guaraldi’s classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Willat also sang in the choir on another of Guaraldi’s big projects that year, the Grace Cathedral Jazz Mass. On today’s program Willat talks about both experiences with host Bill Buchanan and Peanuts/Guaraldi expert Derrick Bang, Davis author of the 2012 book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano.

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Bagpipes in the Studio 12/18/15 on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 12/18/2015 - 3:38pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Cameron Scott visits KDRT

That's correct: For our last show of 2015, it's all about bagpipes as local bagpipe celebrity Cameron Scott brings his talent to the studio. As a young lad, Cameron took up the bagpipes and even spent some time with a bagpipe band in Scotland. That band won third position in the world during the yearly championships. On top of that, Cameron is an awesome person with a great radio voice. I have been looking forward to this all year. Join us for another great hour!

All Listening Lyric shows are live on Fridays from 4:00PM to 5:00PM.(PST) on KDRT 95.7FM. For those outside the listening area, the show streams live online at KDRT.org . It will also be available for replays in the show archives or as an podcast on iTunes under LISTENING LYRICS.

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Album of the Week - Thursday 12/17/15 at 5:00PM - "Leviathan" by Mastodon

Thu, 12/17/2015 - 4:25pm | Pieter Pastoor

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album of the week - KDRT 95,7FM

With their 2004 beast, the aptly titled Leviathan, Mastodon finally find their niche as a thinking man's metal band. Blending Voivod's neuro-thrash, Therion's majestic gloom, Morbid Angel's spirit of restless and morphing liquid black melody, and EyeHateGod's Southern rock gone awry, Leviathan is nothing short of supernatural. Evincing a decade's worth of maturity gained in just two short years, Mastodon have authored a bombastic modern interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the classic metaphor for mortality's eternal (and unwinnable) struggle with divine injustice.

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The Joy of Living on The Folk Brothers 12/16

Wed, 12/16/2015 - 9:35am | Peter Schiffman

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The Joy of Living is a new 2-CD tribute album celebrating the centenary of Ewan MacColl's birth.  MacColl – born Jimmy Miller in Salford, England – was an actor, playwright, social activist, musician, and controversial figure at the heart of the British folk revival in the 1950s and 60s. Joy of Living – produced by his sons Neill and Calum – celebrates MacColl the songwriter. Although best known for the love song “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” as recorded by Roberta Flack, MacColl also wrote many songs about the less-heralded members of British society: fishermen, miners, and travelling people. There are excellent tracks contributed by U.K. folk stalwarts and MacColl contemporaries including Dick Gaughan, Martin Carthy, Paul Brady, and Norma Waterson. For those in the U.S., this album also serves as introduction to luminaries of the contemporary British folk scene – Eliza Carthy, Seth Lakeman, Karine Polwart, and The Unthanks. Tune in to KDRT as The Folk Brothers feature The Joy of Living on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 10 AM.

 

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Album review: Pray for Rain, by Pure Bathing Culture

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 9:52pm | Scott Korinke

Pray for Rain

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Pray for Rain is indie dream-pop group Pure Bathing Culture's second LP, following their 2013 debut album, Moon Tides. Pray for Rain is full of danceable beats and shimmering, rythymic guitars, which--combined with lead singer Sarah Versprille's dreamy and lofty vocals--creates a trancelike, even hypnotic sonic atmosphere. The album sounds consistently upbeat and rarely ventures far from its dream-pop structure, but its lyrics on tracks like "The Tower" and "Darling, Save Us" are thematically hefty, contemplating mortality and the fleeting nature of life. Other standout songs include title track "Pray for Rain," probably the most energetic track sung nearly entirely with rhetorical questions, and the thoughtful and laid back "In the Night, In the Peaceful Night," an excellent ending to a fine album. Pray for Rain is perfect for dream-pop fans--it's an enjoyable, relaxing, blissful album that will help you unwind from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

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