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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.

Join Wayne Hagan and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots, and its many offshoots. Past DJs include Alligator, Lee Maddex, and Rod Moseanko. What a long strange trip!

Live Tuesday 2-4pm

Replays Sunday 6-8pm

DJ(s):

Wayne Hagen

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

Sounds So Sweet

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

Education Beat

KDRT is proud to air EdSource’s new show, Education Beat: Getting to the heart of California schools.

From EdSource:

"Join us each week as we cover everything from preschool to college, bringing you the personal stories behind the headlines. We want you to hear the voices that are too often drowned out in the broader conversation: parents, teachers, and the students themselves."

Live Monday 5:10-5:30pm

Homepage URL:

A production of Ed Source

Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

RayK

More programs ...

Join us for Suds & Sounds – March 26!

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 12:59pm | kdrtradio

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Spring on over to this month's Suds & Sounds! Meet & mingle with KDRT friends, fans, volunteers ... pick some vinyl to spin ... enjoy a cool beverage on this warm spring day! See you at 4 p.m. *today* ... Wed 3/26 ... at Armadillo Music in downtown Davis. Cheers!

In the Key of Folk, March 26, 2025

Wed, 03/26/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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Ah, it's finally feeling like spring! Flowers are blooming, the air is warm and the breezes are gentle. And it's just about time to tune into In the Key of Folk, at 2 p.m., to enjoy music in homage to this time of year, along with what I'll call the tariff sets ... and more. You'll hear another track from Kora Feder's new album, plus tracks from Locarno, Tania Libertad, Domino, Lady Maisery, Eliza Gilkyson, and more.

At KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org and repeating each week on Sunday at 10 a.m. and Thursday at 7 a.m.

Jazz After Dark, March 25, 2025

Tue, 03/25/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show is a retrospective on Louis Armstrong’s career, with selections from across the decades:

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues, 1927

From 1928 – 31:

What Did I Do to Be So Black And Blue
The Peanut Vendor
Louis Armstrong Orchestra:
When You're Smiling
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Red Sails in the Sunset
Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Farewell to Storyville
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Atlanta Blues
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Can't We Be Friends
Louis Armstrong & Russell Garcia, Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Struttin' with Some Barbecue
Louis Armstrong & Sy Oliver, I Can't Give You Anything but Love
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke's Place (Live on The Ed Sullivan Show, Dec. 17, 1961)
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Azalea

Louis Armstrong vocals, 1960s:

A Kiss to Build a Dream On
What a Wonderful World

Divine Intervention – March 21, 2025

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 4:16pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention comes to a listening device near you at 6 p.m. Pacific. Turn it up for new music from Art D'Ecco, Hemlock, The Residents, The Tubs, Throwing Muses... a track or two from Goddess of the Month Dana Gillespie... a belated-birthday, post-performance Bevis Frond feast... assorted old faves... and Vinyl Vespers, of course. It's all here for you on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org — streaming thereafter on the podcast apps.

Spring! The Audio Ecotone for March 21, 2025

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 12:44pm | Eddy Owt

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At 2:01 a.m. Pacific Time on March 20, the sun crossed the plane of the equator, marking the vernal equinox and the start of spring! Across the centuries and cultures, the vernal equinox and coming of spring has not only had practical meaning (time to start sowing seeds, coming of hay fever season, etc.), but has also naturally been imbued with including meaning and symbolism -- Rebirth, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Love, Youth and the Passing of Darkness. Couldn't we all use a little bit of that right now?

On today's Audio Ecotone, we will celebrate those themes and the coming of spring with music old and new from Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, Blossom Dearie, Cibo Matto, Caroline Polarchek and a few other surprises. Listen live at 3 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis or online at kdrt.org. The show will replay Saturday 3/22 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday 3/25 at 7 a.m.

You can leave your thoughts on the show or follow me: @eddy-owt.bsky.social.

Photo, by N. Kapellas, shows silver bush lupine, Grassland Garden at Ninos Parkway, Natomas

Davis Garden Show, March 20, 2025

Thu, 03/20/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: beans and watermelons revisited, plants for shade including some roses, and much more.

In the Key of Folk, March 19, 2025

Wed, 03/19/2025 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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After a week with a lot of great music to be heard out and about locally, join In the Key of Folk, coming up, for an hour of musical reflections. We start off with a couple of tracks from the newly released album by Countercurrent, a duo from the Pacific Northwest. We'll also be covering new releases by hometown favorite Kora Feder, and by New Englanders Jean Rohe and Sean Kiely. We'll include tracks by Kalos, Paddy on the Binge, Mad Agnes, Evie Ladin, Tom Jutz and Eric Brace. Some of these singer-songwriters and musicians may not be that familiar to you -- give it a listen and enjoy! That's this afternoon, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. on KDRT.org!

Jazz After Dark, March 18, 2025

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

Bix Beiderbecke, Copenhagen
Glenn Miller, Adios
Benny Goodman, Rose Room
Benny Goodman, Big John's Special
Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Fools Rush In
Doris Day and Les Brown, Sentimental Journey
Billie Holiday, What A Little Moonlight Can Do
Ella Fitzgerald, You're the Top
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Serenade in Blue
Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy
Kenny Burrell Octet, A String of Pearls
Dave Brubeck, Upstage Rumba
Clark Terry and Paul Gonsalves, Funky
Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill, Macarena
Clark Terry, Jam Session with Oscar Peterson, Misty
Dianne Reeves (with Clark Terry), I Hadn't Anyone ‘til You

Davisville, March 17, 2025: Clean, cheaper than PG&E, resilient -- microgrid proposes big change in energy for new parts of Davis

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Advances in technology, say today’s guests on Davisville, make it possible to create a community microgrid in new parts of Davis that would deliver clean, resilient, solar-powered energy to its customers for less than Pacific Gas & Electric charges. To accomplish this, Davis would need to form a municipal utility, and a developer building on vacant land would need to sign on. If the community microgrid succeeds, the model could be repeated throughout the state.

Ari Halberstadt and Lorenzo Kristov, who have been working on the project, explain how it all would come together, including why the microgrid would have to serve new customers who aren't already served by PG&E.

Rainbow City Park, in the studio on Listening Lyrics, March 14, 2025

Fri, 03/14/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Well, that was a first! In 13 years of hosting Listening Lyrics, I have never—never—forgotten that I had a guest band scheduled. My plan was set, a themed show ready to roll… until I played my first scheduled set. And just like that, everything changed.

Enter Rainbow City Park.

This insanely talented indie-rock/dream pop band from Northern California took the studio by storm. Their sound is a beautiful collision of '90s alt-rock nostalgia and modern indie influences like Phoebe Bridgers, Diiv, and Pinegrove. Hailing from Sacramento, Davis, and San Francisco, they bring a raw, emotional depth to their music that’s impossible to ignore.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/14/2025

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