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About Us

KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.) DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

OUR PROGRAMS

Sounds So Sweet

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

Live Wednesday 7-8pm

Replays Sunday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

Wayne Hagen

Divine Intervention alt. w/Electric Compost Heap

Divine Intervention strikes with an unholy assortment of rock, funk, jazz, punk, roots, and randomness across the decades. For the truly devout, Vinyl Vespers plus Goddess of the Month. Connect with show hostèsse @JessGoddèsse.

On The Electric Compost Heap, DJ Dug Deep hosts a dig through many sound forms — the delightful detritus of blues, soul, country, rock, reggae, jazz, funk, punk, psych, and more — concocting a rich and fertile musical humus. Dig it, Heapsters!

Live Friday 6-8pm

Replays Sunday 5-7pm

DJ(s):

Jess Goddèsse, Dug Deep

Listening Lyrics

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 Sunday 1-2pm

DJ(s):

Pieter Pastoor

Homepage URL:

Listening Lyrics on Facebook

Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands. The show includes "Moments," featuring brief interviews with experts in the scientific, health, and artistic communities about interesting topics and current events. The main focus is music, along with a few outside-the-box ideas.

Live Monday 4-5pm

Replays Friday 5-6pm

DJ(s):

snldjhawk

The Golden Road

Join Alligator and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots and its many offshoots.

Live Friday 8-10pm

DJ(s):

Alligator

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Kevin Welch of Boca do Rio and the meaning of a grant, on Listening Lyrics, March 4, 2022

Fri, 03/04/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Boca do Rio was the second band to be awarded the annual Davis Independent Music Initiative (DIMI) grant, in 2021. The committee that awarded it included the 2020 winner, Davis musician Joel Daniel of the Hoots, reported the Sacramento News and Review in July 2021: "The grant is part of an annual effort to boost Davis’s music scene by providing one local band with funding. Daniel’s hope is that it offers musicians who might otherwise seek a career in Sacramento or the Bay Area the support they need to foster their talents closer to home." Applications for the 2022 grant are due by April 1.

We wrap up this show playing a Led Zeppelin song as interpreted by the Alex Jenkins Trio. Here is an All About Jazz review of their newest album, Tri-Cycle, from 2021.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/04/2022

Davis Garden Show, March 3, 2022

Thu, 03/03/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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The subjects this week include:

Night temperatures for seedlings
Types of red-leaf plums
Tender perennials grown as annuals
Planting times for different vegetables

and more.

The Folk Brothers for March 2, 2022: Stand with Ukraine

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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This morning we featured music from DakhaBrakha (pictured), a folk quartet from Kyiv. Also on today's show: new takes on traditional ballads from Joshua Burnell, Cinder Well, and Jim Ghedi, as well as a new take on "Dublin Blues" from Mipso, plus new original tracks from Ernest Troost, Justin Farren, and Jack Sharp. And more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/02/2022

Jazz After Dark March 01 2022

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Count Basie & His Orchestra, Ethel Ennis, Art Tatum, Gigi Gryce, Lou Donaldson & Grant Green, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Pete Candoli, Claude Bolling Big Band, Pedro Iturralde with Donna Hightower, Ledisi & Metropole Orkest, and Billy Taylor.

Listen in, a $10K grant for Davis musicians, plus special guest Joel Daniel, on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 02/25/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Joel Daniel joins us this week to review the 2022 Davis Independent Music Initiative and City of Davis grant to a Davis-based musician. For more details, visit the DIMI grant page. Plus we have music from Boot Juice, Lillian Francis, Joel Daniel, Racquetbangers, Max Riley, and Stompin' Tom Connors.

Davis Garden Show, Feb. 24, 2022

Thu, 02/24/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This picture is from 2013. On today's program we talk about:

Freezing weather and plant protection
Dealing with bedstraw weeds
Dormant sprays

and more!

The Folk Brothers for Feb. 23, 2022: Talisk rocks the folk

Wed, 02/23/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

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This multiple award-winning Scottish trio is not your grandparents' Celtic band. They bring rock 'n' roll sensibilities to their mix of concertino, fiddle, and acoustic guitar. Box player Mohsen Amini is a force of nature as he drives their instrumental tunes onwards. With the release of their second album Dawn, Talisk's first U.S. tour stops at Sacramento's Sofia Center this Saturday night, Feb. 26.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 02/23/2022

Jazz After Dark February 22 2022

Tue, 02/22/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Lester Young & The Kansas City Six, Lester Young & the King Cole Trio, Helyne Stewart, Les McCann Ltd. & Lou Rawls, Gene Ammons, Stuff Smith, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Lucky Thompson, Stephane Grappelli & Barney Kessel, Stephane Grappelli, Esther Satterfield, Stanley Cowell, Les Paul, and Luiz Bonfa.

Davisville, Feb. 21, 2022: The Capitol Corridor expects to bring more changes to Davis

Mon, 02/21/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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There’s lots of news this spring from the Capitol Corridor, the Bay-to-Sacramento passenger train service. Short term, it's recovering from the pandemic, plus taking steps to counter problems that have made too many trains run late. Longer term, it's considering 1) a new central platform in Davis that would connect to an underpass from the station and from the Olive Drive side of the tracks, and 2) changes to the County Road 32 crossing east of town. And if you look ahead a few decades, the corridor anticipates faster trains and better connections from Davis to the Bay Area through the ambitious Link21 "megaregion" project. We talk about all this today with Rob Padgette, the service’s managing director.