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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.

 

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Blue Light Central

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Every week, the big blue train we call the Blue Light Central rumbles out of the station for an hour-long ride through a landscape of blues, classic R&B, soul, gospel, zydeco, and low-down boogie. Mark Drnek is your ticket agent, porter, engineer, brakeman, and conductor on a weekly excursion through the vast music landscape.

Live Thursday 9-10pm
Homepage URL: 
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Cowboy Tracks

Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic Western roots music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, Old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, Western Swing bands, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.

 

Live Wednesday 1-2pm
Replays Sunday 2-3pm
DJ(s): 
Nancy Flagg
Homepage URL: 
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Silver Nine Volt Heart

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Join your host Rodriguez as he swings the gate wide open for a cool musical trip featuring sounds from all points of the compass.  Being mindful that "everything connects to everything else," on Silver Nine Volt Heart  you will find the many colorful threads that make up the tapestry of recorded sound ... just click it on and let the music start. 

Live Tuesday 7-9am
Replays Saturday 3-5pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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Listening Lyrics

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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: 
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Independent and Local

Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands, including "Moments" — 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 Wednesday 8-9pm
Replays Saturday 11pm-Sunday 12am
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

-------------------It's Friday---------------------------

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Jazz After Dark, April 22, 2025

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

  • Clyde McCoy, Sugar Blues
  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Oh! Susannah, Dust Off That Old Piano
  • Coleman Hawkins & Buck Washington, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Sidney Bechet, Ce môssieu qui parle (This Gentleman Who Speaks)
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Tuxedo Junction
  • Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce, A Night At Tony's
  • Red Garland, If I Were a Bell (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Red Garland, The Very Thought of You (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
  • Nat Adderley, Violets for Your Furs (feat. Wes Montgomery & Sam Jones)
  • Wynton Kelly, Skatin'
  • Dianne Reeves, Lullaby of Broadway
  • Stanley Turrentine, Salt Song
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Divine Intervention – April 18, 2025

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 5:01pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention is ready with a brimming-over plate full of new music from Art D'Ecco, Cheekface, Craig Finn, Frog Eyes, Heaven, L.A. Witch, Mekons, Perfume Genius, Sharp Pins, Young Widows; plus some tracks from our Goddess of the Month, Cassandra Lewis; and an extra-special memorial Vinyl Vespers. Turn it up at 6 p.m. Pacific, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM + KDRT.org + your fave podcast platforms.

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