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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

Old-Time Radio

Old Time Radio KDRT Davis California

Immerse yourself in programs from radio’s Golden Age.

Live Sunday 10-11:30pm
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Grist for the Chill

dave mccasey

Dave serves up a truly interesting mix of music with a focus on fingerstyle guitar and percussive groove as it relates to roots,  world fusion, jazz, funk, Latin and Brazilian music, and more.  

Live Thursday 11am-12pm
Replays Wednesday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
Dave Mcasey
Homepage URL: 
Grist for the Chill
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Blue Light Central

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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: 
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Classical Excursions

Greg LaTraille

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
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Praise Time with Preacher

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
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'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.”

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 26, 2023

Thu, 10/26/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On this week's program: Gardening info from the internet, pollarding trees, composting leaves, and more.

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Album of the Week, Oct. 25, 2023: Paul McCartney's 'Kisses On The Bottom'

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week's host is Pieter playing Paul McCartney's Kisses On The Bottom, the 2012 collection of standards Paul grew up listening to as well as the two new McCartney compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts."

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IMPLOSION, 25 Oct 2023

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 4:00pm | Nick Saloman

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It's almost time for this week's edition of IMPLOSION with the one and only Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond fame. Tune in at 5p Pacific for a marvelous musical mix, including the Only Ones, the Isley Brothers, the Knickerbockers, and more, more, more!

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 24, 2023

Tue, 10/24/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We have the music of Cole Porter tonight, with performances by Julie London, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, June Katz, Bireli Lagrene, Steve Gadd, Harold Mabern Trio, and Terry Gibbs.

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Community radio, volunteers, and Doug Kelly, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Doug Kelly joins us this week to discuss the importance of community radio, and to share his insights, experience and long history with radio.

Doug is a board member of Davis Media Access, a nonprofit community media center that includes KDRT. He also hosts Electric Compost Heap.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 10/20/2023
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Electric Compost Heap, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 5:45pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm on the Electric Compost Heap, Dug Deep will play a wide variety of old and new sounds. He'll also highlight tunes from the Death Valley Girls and the Snares (from Sacramento!), playing in Davis on Halloween. Big thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective for making this event happen!

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 19, 2023

Thu, 10/19/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week we talk about October in your garden, fig trees near vegetable beds, California fuchsias (Epilobium, formerly called Zauschneria), fruit trees in public spaces and school gardens, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 17, 2023

Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker, Anita O'Day, Phineas Newborn Jr., Lou Donaldson, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Nancy Wilson & The Great Jazz Trio, McCoy Tyner, Piano Connection, and Ahmad Jamal.

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Davisville, Oct. 16, 2023: After enduring 50 years of cinematic bafflers, reviewer Derrick Bang calls ’em out

Mon, 10/16/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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All the baffling cliches you’ve seen in movies — idiot plots, hobbled assailants able to chase down a healthy person trying to escape, bloated tension-killing dialogue — these are all things Derrick Bang has endured over and over during his 49 years of writing movie reviews.

He recently listed several of these cinematic headscratchers in an article for the Davis Enterprise, and on today's Davisville he enjoys going over a few of them with program host Bill Buchanan (the photo shows Derrick on the right, Bill on the left). We also get Derrick’s suggestions for movies for the Halloween season, and his thoughts on the Chinese government’s efforts to punish filmmakers for work it finds offensive, even when the movies in question aren't shown in China. Such pressure could help explain why so many mainstream Hollywood movies are superhero stories, he says. “It’s not just because they’re popular. They’re safe.”

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