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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.

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:

Blue Light Central 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

Planetary Radio

Each week, Planetary Radio visits with a scientist, engineer, project manager, astronaut, advocate or writer who provides a unique and exciting perspective on the exploration of our solar system and beyond.

Live Wednesday 5-5:30pm

Homepage URL:

Planteary Radio on the web

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)

Taste, Talk and Whine: All about Wines

Tune in for weekly discussions on topics related to wine making and wine enjoyment — plus occasional guests and engagement with listeners. Topics will span the spectrum from technical growing, making, and tasting to what we're drinking to the best places to find a bottle locally.

Live Tuesday 5:30-6pm

Replays Friday 2:30-3pm

DJ(s):

Nicole Salengo Lee, Tree Kilpatrick

More programs ...

The start of the Putah Creek Council with Carrie Shaw, Imagining Yolo Davis, Nov. 3, 2023

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week on Imagining Yolo Davis we welcome Carrie Shaw. She and the other founding members of the Putah Creek Council show us what volunteers can achieve. Whether it's helping one individual, one tree, one pet -- or in this case, reviving a creek -- volunteers make a huge difference.

So listen in as Carrie describes the beginning of the council. We close the show with Creedence Clearwater's 1969 hit song "Green River," which is about Putah Creek.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 11/03/2023

Davis Garden Show, Nov. 2, 2023

Thu, 11/02/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: How plants hibernate, growing watermelons and sweet potatoes, harvest updates (saffron, roselle …), spiders in the garden, and Don gets an unexpected visit from some young foxes during the taping.

IMPLOSION - 1 November 2023

Wed, 11/01/2023 - 12:52pm | Nick Saloman

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Tune in at 5p Pacific for IMPLOSION! Hear a marvelous musical mix, including The Sorrows, The Steppes, The Red Squares, and The Writing on the Wall, presented only as Nick Saloman can, only on KDRT!

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 31, 2023

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Chris Barber, Mundell Lowe, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Lem Winchester & Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave Pike, Eddie Jefferson, Cornell Dupree, Steven Mayer, The Spencer Wyatt BIg Band, and Ahmad Jamal with Yusef Lateef.

The News Cycle asks Davis High students: Is it OK for teenagers to go trick or treating?

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 9:26am | kdrtradio

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Are high schoolers too old to go trick or treating? On this week’s News Cycle, students from Davis High School’s Blue Devil Hub "dive into the spooky season":

• Rowan Reising interviews Spanish teacher Carlos Diaz about Dia de los Muertos, and how he celebrates with his class

• Marion Delarue reports on Halloween traditions

• And Alessandra Trask investigates whether or not high schoolers are too old to trick-or-treat.

Davisville, Oct. 30, 2023: Oobli, part of Davis food-tech evolution, sees sweet future in sweet proteins

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today’s Davisville involves Davis, food, the invention of new food products, and potentially good news for the environment, depending on how this idea develops.

The topic is sweet proteins, a sugar alternative probably new to most of us, and Oobli, a Davis company using these proteins to create sweet teas and chocolates that just went on the market. Our guest is the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Jason Ryder. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in chemical engineering.

Divine Intervention – Oct. 27, 2023

Sat, 10/28/2023 - 4:18pm | Jess Goddésse

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Did you miss last night's edition of Divine Intervention? Never fear! Replay & playlist are up, featuring very much new music plus Vinyl Vespers with Ronnie McDowell and our Goddess of Month for October 2023, Valaida Snow!

Putah Creek Council's Phil Stevens shares its mission, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 27, 2023

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Phil Stevens, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, joins us this week.

The council's mission is to support regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship. Its vision is to protect and restore natural resources in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of the creek’s wildlife and the regional community.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 10/27/2023

'Is It Alive? Tracks' brings out its annual Halloween show

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:51am | kdrtradio

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Dead Tracks.

It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.

Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.

It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.

Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”