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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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Roots, Shoots and Leaves

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 7-9pm
DJ(s): 
Tree Kilpatrick
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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Pieter Pastoor, KDRT
Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor as he sends color to your ears. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.
Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Tuesday 10-11pm, Sunday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
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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 Thursday 7-8am, Sunday 10-11am
DJ(s): 
Karen Leyse
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Na Mele O Hawai'i

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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 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Beth Post
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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on local sports in the Sacramento/Davis area that occasionally covers National Sports. Hosts Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for more than 15 years and want to share their opinions and initiate discussion to the public through conversation and occasional outside interviews. This show will not be politically driven in anyway. The conversation will cover the results , local impact, business and psychology of sports.

Live Thursday 6-7pm
Replays Friday 8-9am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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Davisville, July 1, 2024: Guaraldi time is here, 2nd edition

Mon, 07/01/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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“Vince is always pulling splinters from his fingers, driven in when he claws at the wooden baseboard, behind the keys,” wrote Bay Area music critic Ralph Gleason, as quoted in Davis author Derrick Bang’s newly revised book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano. The splinters came from Guaraldi’s intense playing, Bang says, nearly nonstop performing, and the worn quality of the pianos he played in clubs.

Guaraldi, the Bay Area jazz musician known most for his Peanuts soundtracks and the song “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” died in 1976 but is arguably more popular than ever, Bang says. Two recent signs: This month's latest archival release of music from a Peanuts special, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, and Bang’s updated book, which he will talk about 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Avid Reader in Davis. On today’s Davisville we learn more about the music, new stories Bang heard while updating his book, and the baffling review Guaraldi received from the California Aggie the last time he played in Davis.

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Replay of Favorite songs and the power they evoke, from Listening Lyrics, Aug. 12, 2022

Fri, 06/28/2024 - 11:24am | admin

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Asking someone to select their top 20 songs is difficult, and picking just one is impossible. But that's what we have today: one favorite song from each of several people, along with the reasons it's their favorite. I left the genres open.

Music is a mystery that touches us on so many levels at so many different times. It can make us happy, sad, or melancholy. Or maybe we're drawn to the music itself, or to the lyrics; or for many of us a song offers a look back in time that allows us to relive a past moment.

On today's show, we play songs chosen by Karin Pastoor Husebosch, Carol Hess, Rod Rodriguez, Preacher, Ed Branam, John Caroll, Jeanne Pastoor, and me, Pieter Pastoor. Listen to the stories and be moved by the power of music.

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Davis Garden Show, June 27, 2024

Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: gardenias in pots, mildew and other tree diseases, July flowers for hot sun, lace bug on toyon, and more.

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Join us for Suds & Sounds – June 26!

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 7:07pm | Jess Goddésse

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Please join KDRT for Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in downtown Davis, on Wednesday, June 26, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, grab a sticker & a new T-shirt, pick some vinyl to spin...! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. This gathering repeats every month on the last Wednesday — mark you calendars!

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Jazz After Dark, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s episode:

  • Earl Bostic, C Jam Blues
  • Glenn Miller, Td's Boogie Woogie
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb and His Orchestra, You Showed Me the Way
  • Artie Shaw, That Old Feeeling
  • Benny Goodman, Runnin' Wild
  • Erroll Garner, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Helen Forrest/Harry James, Skylark
  • Les Brown, Leap Frog
  • Nat King Cole, (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, The Man I Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, The Mooche
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, O Pato
  • Count Basie & Joe Williams, Alright, Okay, You Win
  • Toots Thielemans, Indian Nuts
  • Shirley Horn, Forget Me
  • Diana Krall and Stanley Turrentine, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Jim Cox (The Majestic soundtrack), Boogie Woogie Stomp
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Old time, blues and honky tonkin' on High Country Music Radio, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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This week's High Country features the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with selections from Will the Circle be Unbroken, the New Grass Revival, Brit Taylor, Chris Thomas King, The Stanley Brothers, Hank Williams Sr., The Faux Paws, Town Mountain, Billy Strings, John Hartford, bluesman Henry Thomas and Old & In The Way.

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Divine Intervention – June 21, 2024

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 5:29pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention is back to soothe your aching soul with the sounds of DMF favorites Milly, Reckling, Plum Skin, and Milk for the Angry... with new music from SF's Aluminum, Swiftumz, and Kelley Stoltz... with our Vinyl Vespers feature and some old faves you've maybe forgotten... with all this and MORE. Tune in at 6p Pacific on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org.

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Replay of Bapu Vaitla guest hosts show about community and radio, on Listening Lyrics, Dec. 2, 2022

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 11:23am | admin

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Davis City Councilmember-elect Bapu Vaitla hosts this special edition of Listening Lyrics. Community radio has an important role in providing the music and comments that are the fabric of what makes a community thrive. He discusses this topic with guest Pieter Pastoor, the show's usual host, in between music that reflects their thoughts.

Music, discussions and the love of community make this hour a special treat. Listen over the air, via streaming on kdrt.org, or on most podcast apps under the name Listening Lyrics.

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Davis Garden Show, June 20, 2024

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: blossom end rot, sequential plantings of summer vegetables, ceanothus in Oregon, lawn problems, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 19 June 2024

Wed, 06/19/2024 - 11:05am | Nick Saloman

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Don't miss this evening's edition of IMPLOSION with Nick Saloman! Hear amazing music from Blue Experience, the Buzzcocks, the Ides of March, the Originals, and Mashmakhan — coming at you at 5 p.m. Pacific Wednesday June 19 right here on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org!

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