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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.

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm

Replays Sunday 12-2pm

DJ(s):

Gil Medovoy

Twang Thang

Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, showcasing the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver ... Americana music didn't just show up one day — it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores the originators, the newcomers, and the music that happened along the way!

Live Wednesday 7-9am

Replays Saturday 1-3pm

DJ(s):

DJ Dirk

Jazz After Dark

Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie-woogie, blues, and ragtime through traditional and straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more.

Live Tuesday 8-9pm

Replays Wednesday 10-11pm

DJ(s):

Don Shor

Homepage URL:

Jazz After Dark on the Web (blog with playlists)

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

Classical Excursions

Classical radio programs often focus on well-known light classics and ignore challenging and imaginative masterworks, especially from the rich repertoire of 20th century music, which is very diverse. This results in listeners who are unaware of many wonderful works. Excursions will present short and longer works by famous as well as less known composers, with insightful commentary by a composer with years of experience in radio, classical marketing, and music education.

Live on the first, third and occasional fifth Friday of the month.

Live Friday 11am-1pm

Replays Sunday 9-11am

DJ(s):

Greg LaTraille

More programs ...

Sample the bands in this year's Davis Music Fest on this week's Divine Intervention

Sat, 06/10/2023 - 11:58am | kdrtradio

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The Davis Music Fest begins in less than a week. Tune into this week's Divine Intervention for a sampling of this year's bands and artists.

KDRT will be broadcasting live from two of the fest's events, Friday 6/16 night @sudwerkbrew and Saturday 6/17 @armadillomusic

Davis Garden Show, June 8, 2023

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On today's program: Cool weather continues, fruit tree training problems and discussion, old-fashioned flowers, stinky cole crops, and more.

Sounds So Sweet: Summer and Victoria Spivey, the 'belle of the blues'

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 8:19am | kdrtradio

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Summer doesn't officially start for another couple of weeks, but we live in Davis. We've always started our warm season early, so this week Sounds So Sweet celebrates summer. Join host Wayne Hagan for a show featuring summertime and Victoria Spivey, whom the Blues Foundation describes as "a belle of the blues with a head for business and a visceral gift as a songwriter."

Jazz After Dark, June 6, 2023

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight on Jazz After Dark: a retrospective of the career of jazz pianist Earl Hines. His career spanned 1920 to 1983 and bridged early jazz, swing, bebop, and more. In his later career resurgence he did many solo performances and duets, producing over a hundred albums in the 1960s and '70s.

We’ll hear selections from his early work with Louis Armstrong, some swing recordings from Chicago in the 1930s, some live performances solo and with his orchestra from the 1950s and '60s, and then duets with Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Rushing, and Paul Gonsalves. Then a bit of Gershwin and a live performance from 1973.

This week on Celtic Songlines: Golden Bough and more

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 12:51pm | kdrtradio

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This week on Celtic Songlines we find NorCal's Golden Bough (pictured -- remember them from all their shows at the Palms?), Alasdair Fraser with Tony McManus and Natalie Haas, Capercaillie, Denmark's Myrkur, Lorkin O'Reilly, Kevin Crawford, from Northern Ireland the band Connla, the extraordinary fingerstyle guitar of Duck Baker, Paddy Tutty, trad band Open the Door for Three, Paddy Reynolds and friends, and Planxty.

You have lots of ways to listen to this great set of music, hosted by Dave Reynolds:

If you live in Davis within reach of our signal, tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM, with replays Monday 8-9 p.m. and Saturday 6-7 p.m.
Or stream at kdrt.org
Or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts!

The News Cycle's 2023 finale includes a look into the future

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 12:00am | DHS Journalism Class

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Today on The News Cycle, next year's podcast hosts, Noah Meyer and Rowan Reising, sit down with your current favorite podcast hosts, Maria Anderson and Naneh Grigor, to reminisce on this past year and our favorite memories. We also talk about goals for next year, what the new editors are hoping to accomplish, and go behind the scenes of creating this weekly show.

Producers are Maria Anderson and Naneh Grigor. Music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.

The News Cycle is created by Davis Senior High School's Blue Devil Hub for the Davis community.

Imagining Yolo Davis, June 2, 2023: The Davis Music Fest with Kyle Monhollen, executive director

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Kyle Monhollen reviews the 2023 Davis Music Fest and the role of volunteers.

The event's website says the Davis Music Festival (June 16-18 this year) is "a multi-venue multi-genre live music event showcasing local, regional and touring artists – all to benefit local arts nonprofits. It’s like our own version of SXSW in a single weekend, and for a great cause! This event is all ages. Anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The festival takes place rain or shine.

"DMF is a production of the Davis Live Music Collective and is presented with the generous support of our sponsors, members, individual producers and community partners. DMF is supported, in part, by a Sacramento Foundation Arts & Culture Grant and the City of Davis."

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 06/02/2023

Eye on Sports returns this afternoon after 3 years away

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 1:24pm | kdrtradio

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Eye on Sports returns today!

Cody Westergaard and Chuck Garcia resume their sports program today, June 2, after 3 years away. They began Eye on Sports in 2019, then put it on hiatus in March 2020. On Fridays at 4, they'll cover local sports in the first part of each show, and national sports in the second.

We're really glad they're back in the lineup. Tune in for some great discussion and information about sports, in Davis and beyond.

Davis Garden Show, June 1, 2023

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's program features flowers in June, some underutilized perennials, and more.

The Folk Brothers, May 31, 2023: Remembering Brother Peter

Wed, 05/31/2023 - 11:10am | kdrtradio

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Today’s show honors Peter Schiffman, late co-host with Bill Wagman of The Folk Brothers. Peter died unexpectedly on Friday, May 26. Bill is away, and Rodriguez, host of KDRT program Silver Nine Volt Heart, fills in with music and warm remembrances of our friend and fellow Davis programmer.

“Peter, we’re going to miss you a lot here,” Rod says toward the end of the hour. “Thank you for your contributions to radio, particularly KDRT and also KDVS, and your love of music, and your love of live music in Davis.”

You can say many good things about Peter, including the happiness he got from his love of dogs. This love helps the show “end with a smile,” Rod says — by playing a song Peter Rowan performs about dogs, “Drop the Bone.”

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