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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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In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm
Replays Tuesday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Karen Leyse
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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm
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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Monday Morning Show

The Monday Morning Show with DJ Ned brings variety to morning drive with a mix of music (depending on Ned's mood), production pieces, discussion of current events, occasional guests, general musings on life in Davis, and Ned goofing off 100% of the time.

Live Monday 7-9am
DJ(s): 
Ned
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Techtonic with Mark Hurst

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Techtonic with Mark Hurst – a weekly, 58-minute talk show on technology – explores what’s at stake in our profit-driven, tech-saturated society. Hurst interviews authors, journalists, and creators to discuss how our daily lives and work are being affected by screen addiction, surveillance capitalism, and big-tech utopianism. Techtonic reveals the threats to democracy, society, and the environment due to the actions of giant corporations and tech platforms.

Techtonic is a production of WFMU, an independent radio station in Jersey City, New Jersey. 

Live Wednesday 12-1pm
Homepage URL: 
Techtonic on the web
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The News Cycle, Dec. 4, 2023: Looking ahead to college preparation

Mon, 12/04/2023 - 12:00am | DHS Journalism Class

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This week the News Cycle talks to Eda Chen about the career counseling and academic advice for highschoolers, and what that would look like for Davis high students. Gwynn Canfield investigates different ways students prepare for the Scholastic Assessment Test, or the SATs. Naneh Grigor debates whether or not it’s even worth it to take the test.

Podcast packages by Gwynn Canfield and Naneh Grigor. Interview by Rowan Reising. Produced by Rowan Reising. Music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.

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(Divine) Dinner Bell Roundup (Heap) – Dec. 2, 2023

Sat, 12/02/2023 - 11:34am | Jess Goddésse

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Today on the Dinner Bell Roundup at 4 pm, Dug Deep & Jess Goddèsse saddle up to serve a truckload of swank, swingin' countrified sounds for you and your hounds. Eat your fill then pay your bill at KDRT.org/donate. :-)

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The Divine Electric Compost Intervention! – Dec. 1, 2023

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 5:17pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm DJ Dug Deep will be joined by Jess Goddèsse as they combine their respective radio shows into a magnum opus, the Divine Electric Compost Intervention! Why would they attempt such a massive undertaking, I hear you ask? Well, it's fundraising time around the old community radio station, and we will be imploring listeners to make a donation and keep KDRT alive and well. You can donate a little sumpin sumpin yourself by going to KDRT.org. Should be a lot of fun and a lot of great music, so don't miss it!

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Odd Fellows Davis Lodge with Noble Grand Larry Guenther, Dec. 1, 2023

Fri, 12/01/2023 - 4:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week we have the pleasure of learning about the Odd Fellows, Davis Lodge. Lodge Noble Grand Larry Guenther explains the mission and opportunities offered by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- an amazing and unique group of concerned volunteers -- to help citizens of their community. According to the Odd Fellows Creed, members believe in the universal brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Odd Fellowship is non-partisan, non-sectarian, and welcomes all people without regard to religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, and national origin.

The Davis Lodge has more than 80 committees working with its volunteers to make Davis a better community for all of us. Listen in as Larry does a great job of representing the Odd Fellows.

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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 30, 2023

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: frost information, dealing with gophers, poinsettias and cyclamen and other winter color, Amaryllis and paperwhites, and more.

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Jeff Sanford of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra on Silver Nine Volt Heart, Nov. 30, 2023

Wed, 11/29/2023 - 7:03pm | Diane Crumley

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Updated 12/1

For this week's show, Silver Nine Volt Heart host Rodriguez interviewed Jeff Sanford about his recent Cartoon Jazz Orchestra album, Playland at the Beach. This was as fun as it sounds!

Wildly creative cartoon soundtracks, heard on anything from the classic cartoons of the '40s and '50s with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to today's Anime, deliver an adventurous mash-up of classical, jazz, pop, folk, and everything in between. This music has a new home with Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Orchestra, a group of gifted, serious musicians who enjoy playing this zany, challenging music that swings like crazy.

Playland at the Beach was released by the Little Village Foundation, a California arts nonprofit that seeks to increase cross-cultural understanding by recording and producing underground artists whose music has not yet been discovered outside their community.

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Jazz After Dark, Nov. 28, 2023

Tue, 11/28/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Jazz classics tonight. We’ll hear from Art Tatum, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. Big Band by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Lionel Hampton, and Artie Shaw, and Sidney Bechet. Vocals by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Horace Silver Quintet with Bill Henderson. Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, and then Lena Horne, and Mose Allison.

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Davisville, Nov. 27, 2023: The strikes, best and worst movies, and what’s ahead

Mon, 11/27/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Get yourself settled and turn off your phone, we're raising the curtain on our latest year-end movie show with Davis film critic Derrick Bang. We talk about the effects of this year's writers’ and actors’ strikes, streaming, some of the best and worst movies of 2023, and films he’s looking forward to — or not — during the next several weeks.

Derrick writes for the Davis Enterprise and his blog Derrick Bang on Film (the photo shows Derrick lurking behind a laptop displaying his blog).

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Grassroots gratitude from KDRT: Thank you all!

Sun, 11/26/2023 - 10:29pm | Diane Crumley

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updated Dec. 10

THANK YOU for supporting your local grassroots radio by donating to KDRT! Our DJs enjoyed visiting their colleagues' shows during on-air fundraising, and seeing many of you at the variety of live music events during the past two weeks.  We're thrilled that your generosity so far has brought us to within 85 percent of our $7,000 goal. If it's slipped your mind, no worries, there's still time to donate.

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Davis Garden Show, Nov. 23, 2023

Thu, 11/23/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: new USDA zones, why you don’t like cilantro, November color in the garden from toyons and grapes, Liquidambars, lacewings on Tilias, saving tomato seeds, and a Thanksgiving essay.

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