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About Us

KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.) DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

OUR PROGRAMS

Praise Time with Preacher

The word "gospel" is derived for the old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “good message” or “good news." Host Preacher believes gospel music is powerful, whether the listener is or is not Christian — that everyone can enjoy listening to gospel because it is uplifting and inspiring, sung with passion and belief from the artist, touching all who hear it in a good and heartfelt way. The aim of Praise Time is to help listeners find what Preacher believes lives in everyone: a good spirit that drives us to be the best we can be.

Live Tuesday 4-5pm

Replays Sunday 7-8am

DJ(s):

Preacher

The Awesome Patrol Show

Joy, Gentle Friends!! Catch Sara TAPS on Friday afternoons (Yay! Again!!) live at 2:30 p.m. for your weekly installment of The Awesome Patrol Show — an hour of fresh tunes to wrap up your week. Think of it like a song "flight" of awesome sounds, ideas, feels! Sara creates the sets to feel reminiscent of old-school mix-tapes, something she's never stopped making since getting her first double-tape deck in junior high! Enjoy InJOY, a weekly mix for you, me, our commUNITY! TAPS mantra: Jams up, windows down!

Live Friday 2:30-4pm

Replays Monday 9:30-11pm

DJ(s):

Sara TAPS

Homepage URL:

TAPS

Roots, Shoots and Leaves

Roots, Shoots and Leaves' DJ Tree has a theory of music that involves a tree. Suffice it to say that it involves a trinity — an exploration of themes and connections among recording artists — and otherwise very few boundaries. Listen for music old and new, known and unknown. And if you listen long enough, you may experience some musical enlightenment.

Live Tuesday 6-8pm

Replays Saturday 12-2pm

DJ(s):

Tree Kilpatrick

3rd Streaming

Coined in 1957 by Brandeis University professor Gunther Schuller, “Third Stream” is a term used to describe the synthesis of classical and jazz. Join DJ Gary Chew to discover some Third Stream sounds for yourself.

Live Tuesday 1-3pm

Replays Thursday 9-11pm, Saturday 7-9pm

DJ(s):

Gary Chew

Homepage URL:

Third Streaming

The Cerealist

The Cerealist curates chilling broadcasts of loud + bizarre soundscapes from an ancient cave bellowing death metal from around the globe, with smoky stage lights on music from American, Swedish, and Norwegian shredders. Tune in every week for 30 brutal minutes of blast-beat heaven!

Live Saturday 11-11:30pm

DJ(s):

The Cerealist

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The Folk Brothers is now Sometimes Folk

Thu, 08/03/2023 - 1:34pm | kdrtradio

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Bill Wagman has renamed his KDRT program, but doesn’t want anyone to forget his former co-host.

Bill co-hosted The Folk Brothers with Peter Schiffman each Wednesday at KDRT starting in September 2015 (the first show is still available in the archives!). And then this lovely run of programs ended, at least in that format, when Peter died in May 2023.

Bill is carrying on. The show is now called Sometimes Folk. Don’t read the name change as a turn away from folk music, Bill says. He might choose songs now and then that stray outside the mainstream — one of the things we do anyway here at KDRT — but as he says, “I can make an argument for a lot of music being folk.”

He says Peter’s influence continues to shape the program and the songs Bill chooses to play each week. Not that Bill is a novice about the music. He is known — among overseas musicians, even — for the house concerts he has hosted at his Davis home over the decades, and for his decades as a DJ at UC Davis station KDVS.

As long as Bill Wagman stays on the air, The Folk Brothers -> Sometimes Folk will continue to be a reliable hour of great music and community, and a bouquet of forget-me-nots on the table in memory of Peter Schiffman. Here’s the latest show.

Davis Garden Show, Aug. 3, 2023

Thu, 08/03/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: Watering natives when they're young, creeping Taiwan raspberry, holes in rose leaves, peach problems, and a discussion of mandarin varieties for a long season of harvest.

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 1, 2023

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer, Stanley Turrentine with Grant Green and Tommy Flanagan, Roy Eldridge, Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Jerry Fielding, Stan Getz with Kenny Barron, Etta James, and The Rosenberg Trio.

Today’s Celtic Songlines brings you ‘wonderful Celtic fiddle energy’

Tue, 08/01/2023 - 1:25pm | kdrtradio

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Celtic Songlines launches its musical lineup for this week with a song from Dramagical, a brand-new release “inspired by nature and Scotland's magical otherworld” from fiddler Seán Heely (pictured).

Host Craig Reynolds follows up the song with more “wonderful Celtic fiddle energy,” and it's all ready for you now on this week’s show.

Community Harvest of Davis, on Imagining Yolo Davis, July 28, 2023

Fri, 07/28/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Join us as John Aubert and co-founder Greg Gibs talk about the truly awesome Community Harvest of Davis, a nonprofit run by volunteers that harvests fruit from residential trees and donates it to agencies that feed people in need. Both guests are members of the group's board.

Community Harvest donates to Davis agencies, primarily the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee, with any excess going to the Yolo Food Bank and local churches. Its mission "is to provide food for people who need it, promote sustainable use of urban resources, and contribute to a stronger community." As of fall 2017, the charity had donated more than 250,000 pounds of fruit, and had a donor database of 200+ homes and more than 400 volunteers, including including members of 11 UC Davis service groups.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 07/28/2023

Cowboy Tracks present songs from the big deep diverse wide open

Fri, 07/28/2023 - 3:11pm | kdrtradio

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Host Nancy Flagg titles her latest program “Big Country,” to convey “the wide open spaces and the breadth and the depth and diversity of our country.”

She plays a song by that name near the end, and starts this week’s Cowboy Tracks with a tune by cowboy musician Rod Taylor (pictured), “Bonita Canyon Drive.”

Davis Garden Show, July 27, 2023

Thu, 07/27/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week's subjects include citrus for the Bay Area, July garden opportunities, gulf fritillary caterpillars and butterflies on passion flower vines, recommended tree lists, LInden trees, Arabian jasmine, low hedge suggestions, and more!

Clyde recalls seeing Tony Bennett in the early '50s, on Davis Music Connections

Wed, 07/26/2023 - 10:07am | kdrtradio

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Show hosts Ned and Clyde open this week’s Davis Music Connections with an audio clip from American Movie and memories about legendary singer Tony Bennett, who died on July 21 at 96.

Each saw Bennett perform, Ned about 30 years ago, and Clyde in the early 1950s (!) — few performers had a career as long as Bennett’s. “He hadn’t quite got popular yet," Clyde says. "We were staying at the Statler in LA, and they have a small room there, and Tony Bennett was doing about three sets a night. He had a single guitar player behind him. It was really cool.”

Ned riffs on American Movie, a movie about a guy making a movie. The late film critic Roger Ebert gave it four stars, calling it "a very funny, sometimes very sad documentary.” And then we move on to the music, starting with “Rag Doll” by the Four Seasons.

Jazz After Dark, July 25, 2023

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Erskine Hawkins & and His Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet, Artie Shaw, Zoot Sims, Lou Levy Trio, Mundell Lowe And His All Stars, Gil Evans, Horace Parlan, Elek Bacsik, Kenny Burrell, and Buddy Collette.

Davisville, July 24, 2023: Living in Davis, reporting from Ukraine for NBC

Mon, 07/24/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Ukraine is far from Davis, but we reduce the distance today on Davisville by talking with Vice Sturla (pictured in the KDRT studio), a producer for the NBC News program Dateline who has lived in Davis for years. He went to Ukraine last fall to report on the war with Russia, and tells us what he saw.

“These are tough, tough, tough people,” he says. “I was there in November. It was snowing, it was cold, and these relentless missile strikes had really had an impact as far as taking out the electrical infrastructure across the country. [In Kyiv,] folks were typically without power for 20 hours a day. That’s light, electricity, everything.

“A lot of people live in high-rise buildings. So, no elevators. You might have to go up 20 flights of stairs. And down again. That’s just life. With a flashlight. But without complaint. The whole thing is, ‘well, just think with what our guys are putting up with at the front. This is nothing. I can do this.’

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