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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.

The Yolo County Breakdown

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Bluegrass, newgrass, and beyond. From Bill Monroe to Billy Strings, the Yolo County Breakdown is a journey through acoustic string music ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge.

Live Friday 10-11am

Replays Sunday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

Rocky Outcrop

E-Town, taped before a live audience in Boulder, Colorado, features today’s top folk and Americana artists, along with information and discussions on the environment and conservation. Host Nick Forster nimbly walks the line between musician and radio journalist, playing guitar, mandolin, or lap steel with musical guests and then switching gears to engage artists in conversation. Co-host Helen Forster lends her voice to both the spoken and musical portions of the show.

Live Saturday 10-11am

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E-Town on the web

Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm

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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

Democracy Now!

Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is an award-winning syndicated news program that gives voice to perspectives rarely heard in corporate-sponsored media, including independent journalists, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world.

Live Friday 9-10am

Homepage URL:

Democracy Now! on the web

Listening Lyrics

Welcome to an hour of Listening Lyrics, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California.

No musical passports required. Folk can sit next to funk, jazz can dance with rock, and a singer-songwriter might end up sharing a park bench with a reggae band. Listening Lyrics is your invitation to escape the noise of the day and enter a world of elaborate sounds, unexpected discoveries, and songs that have something to say.

This is the kind of journey only commercial-free community radio can provide.

So close your eyes. Open your ears. Relax your mind. Join me, Pieter Pastoor, as we send color to your ears and wander through the vast landscape of music and lyrics—the grand meeting place of rhythm, imagination, and the remarkable human ability to create art. Whether it's a whisper, a roar, a groove, or a melody you've never heard before, it all belongs here.

Remember: Real Music. Real Community. Real Good Music.

Live Friday 4-5pm

Replays Sunday 11am-12pm

DJ(s):

Pieter Pastoor

Homepage URL:

Listening Lyrics on Facebook

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Davis Garden Show, May 1, 2025

Thu, 05/01/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: cottony cushion scale, seeds we can plant now, plant problems from rainy cool weather, weeds in May, lace bugs on toyon, and more.

IMPLOSION – 30 April 2025

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 3:30pm | Nick Saloman

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Are you ready for IMPLOSION? Nick Saloman is coming your way Wednesday, April 30, at 5 p.m. Pacific with astounding sounds from Black Axe, Skin Alley, Groundspeed, Swervedriver, and My Dear Watson. Keep it tuned to KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org. Catch it thereafter via your podcast apps.

In the Key of Folk, April 30, 2025

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 12:00pm | Karen Leyse

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Celebrate some new releases on In The Key of Folk this afternoon. Nestled among tracks by Rita Hosking, Laurie Lewis, Wil Maring, Latter Day Lizards and others, you'll hear several tracks from new albums by Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson and by Rees Shad. We're on at 2 PM, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org.

Jazz After Dark, April 29, 2025

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

Fats Waller, After You've Gone
Bunny Berigan, Black Bottom
Billie Holiday, God Bless the Child
Red Garland, I Can't Give You Anything but Love (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
Milt Jackson, Blues at Twilight
Nat Adderley, I've Got a Crush on You (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
Barney Kessel, New Rhumba
Gia Maione, Louis Prima, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, When a Man Loves a Woman
Claude Bolling, Sentimentale
Butch Thompson, Home (When Shadows Fall - Red Maddock vocals)
Hank Jones, Mads Vinding & Billy Hart, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Davisville, April 28, 2025: Yolo Local has a question for you -- 'What do you need to know?'

Mon, 04/28/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Last year’s idea for a new “civic information hub” in Yolo County has grown into Yolo Local, a budding project to create a new source for local information and news. This spring the project is surveying people throughout the county to get insights on the types of information people want to access about local civic life and events, but don’t necessarily know where to find it, as the old ways of distributing information and news continue to fragment.

Today on Davisville we hear an update about the project from Autumn Labbe-Renault, the executive director of Davis Media Access and the project’s main organizer. What Yolo Local will look like, and how it will operate, is not yet decided. That will come after the survey results are released, probably in September. Meanwhile, Autumn offers two examples of existing civic information sites she likes—Lookout in Santa Cruz and The Oaklandside, in Oakland—during today's review of what's driving this project, who's involved, and how it all might come together.

Celebrate, it's Friday on Listening Lyrics, April 25, 2025

Fri, 04/25/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Today's show is a mish-mash of music, but in essence it's celebrating the end of the week.

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Davis Garden Show, April 24, 2025

Thu, 04/24/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today our topics include planting around a rose garden, wisterias and native vines, potting soil vs. planting mix, and more.

IMPLOSION – 23 April 2025

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 3:30pm | Nick Saloman

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Coming up on IMPLOSION, the Beach Boys, the Mothers, the Nashville Teens, the Regents, and many more must-hear sounds. Listen up for Nick Saloman at 5 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org + your podcast apps.

In the Key of Folk, April 23, 2025

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 1:00pm | Karen Leyse

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April is Earth month and yesterday was Earth Day! Therefore, today In the Key of Folk honors mother earth with tracks that cover the good, bad, and little-known aspects of life on our planet. We'll cover tracks by Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking, Dougie MacLean, and Alien Folklife, among others.

The second half of the hour will be devoted to a sample of favorite contra dance tunes in honor of the 39th Anniversary Contra Dance this Saturday night, put on by the Sacramento Country Dance Society. You'll hear tracks by The Free Raisins, Toss the Possum, the Syncopaths, and String Fire. Tune in at 2 this afternoon, and don't forget to put your dancing shoes on! Right here on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org!