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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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Live Tracks

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Live Tracks  frequently airs recordings from local performances here in Davis. LT began broadcasting on Sept. 30, 2004, and has produced 720 original episodes as of August 2024. Best experienced with a lava lamp, cool recreational beverage of choice, and a place to chill out. Peace.

Live Thursday 7-9pm
Replays Saturday 9-11pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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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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The Wild Fox Party

WILD FOX RADIO PARTY

Tune in for a wide variety of roots music — including doo-wop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, Latin, African, and hillbilly/country bluegrass — from the early 1920s to contemporary times. The Wild Fox Party focuses on vocal groups , small-group ensembles, and outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists who never or hardly ever get heard. The music provides a forum for learning about history and diverse cultures, and it does so through the exposure of music as art, highlighting points in time that will last forever via the medium of audio recordings.

Live Tuesday 10-11am
Replays Wednesday 11pm-Thursday 12am
DJ(s): 
Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Doo Wop Dave
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 Friday 7-8am
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 Thursday 4-6pm
Replays Friday 10pm-Saturday 12am, Saturday 2-4pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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IMPLOSION – 7 May 2025

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 3:30pm | Nick Saloman

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Get ready for IMPLOSION, bringing you the groovy sounds of Aardvark, Ars Nova, Hawkwind, and so much more. Join your host Nick Saloman on Wednesday, May 7, at 5 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org. Catch the show at your convenience on the web or your favorite podcast app.

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Jazz After Dark, May 6, 2025

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Take The "A" Train
  • Duke Ellington, Bojangles
  • Duke Ellington, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  • Duke Ellington, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) [Live]
  • Duke Ellington, Sophisticated Lady (Live)
  • Duke Ellington with Rosemary Clooney, Blue Rose
  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra, Honey Hill
  • Paul Gonsalves, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Medley: Kinda Dukish, and Rockin' in Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, C Jam Blues
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Let's Do It (Live)
  • Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald, Something to Live For (Live)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) [Live at The Cote d'Azur]
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Celebrate KDRT during our Spring FUNdraiser!

Mon, 05/05/2025 - 12:00am | kdrtradio

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Please help us continue to celebrate our 20th birthday:

Donate here today!

Grab one of our special thank-you gifts, including our NEW KDRT hats in two swell styles. Then join us on Wednesday, May 7, at Armadillo Music for an "extended play" edition of Suds & Sounds, featuring an extra hour of merry-making – 4 to 7 p.m. – with musical guests Max & Julian of the Big Poppies! Don't miss the FUN!
 

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The Yolo County Breakdown – Friday, May 2

Thu, 05/01/2025 - 6:15pm | Rocky Outcrop

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This week's Yolo Country Breakdown features an interview with dobro legend Jerry Douglas. Yes, Jerry Douglas! Don't miss it — Friday, May 2, 10 a.m. Pacific — on KDRT 95.7 FM + KDRT.org + your favorite podcast platform.

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Joel Davis, 1962-2025: His journalism kept the spotlight on a Davis double-murder that took 32 years to solve

Thu, 05/01/2025 - 4:34pm | Bill Buchanan

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Few journalists have had as much impact in Davis as Joel Davis (pictured in 2013).

In 2005 he wrote his book Justice Waits about the then-unsolved kidnapping and murders of two UC Davis students, John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves, in December 1980. The killings stunned and terrified the community. His book helped sustain interest in solving the crime, ending in the conviction of Richard Hirschfield for first-degree murder in December 2012.

In January 2013, Joel appeared on Davisville to talk about the book, the effect the murders had on Davis and on him, and finishing his work even as he was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s Disease.

Justice Waits was important, useful, and written with clarity and skill. Joel grew up in Davis. He cared about getting this right. “I knew this would be an unusual case,” he wrote in the preface. “I just didn’t realize how unusual.”

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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.

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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 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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