Skip to main content
Home
  • Listen Now
  • Programs
  • Schedule
  • Events
  • About
  • Support
Media Player Error.
If you are having trouble with the stream cutting in and out, open the following in your audio player (i.e. iTunes): http://kdrt.org:8000/kdrt.
Questions? Contact us. Request line: 530.792.1648

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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

Davisville

Davisville illustration

Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 14 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024. Contact: davisville @ dcn.org

Live Monday 5:30-6pm
Replays Saturday 8:30-9am
DJ(s): 
Bill Buchanan
  • Read more about Davisville
  • 4 comments
  • Add new comment

Sounds So Sweet

Sounds So Sweet Program Picture KDRT

Host Wayne Hagen takes a lively look at sweet sounds of jug band music, past and present.

Live Tuesday 1-2pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
  • Read more about Sounds So Sweet
  • 21 comments
  • Add new comment

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 Monday 4-5pm
Replays Saturday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
  • Read more about Independent and Local
  • 2 comments
  • Add new comment

That California Sound!

That California Sound!

That California Sound! Local + Regional  Music from The Golden State ... From Then ... To Now  features local, regional, and small touring bands throughout California while highlighting the history and culture of California musicians, venues, teachers, recording studios, promoters, festivals, and general resources that enrich our community.

Live Monday 6-8pm
DJ(s): 
JonEmery, Scott Schiller
  • Read more about That California Sound!
  • Add new comment

The Cerealist

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 Wednesday 7:30-8pm
DJ(s): 
The Cerealist
  • Read more about The Cerealist
  • 1 comment
  • Add new comment
More programs ...

This year's Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access -- save the date, April 21, 2022

Sat, 03/12/2022 - 2:19pm | Diane Crumley

2022-Soups-On-event-w-Mumbo-Gumbo-graphic-sq.jpg

Since its inception in 2004, Don Saylor’s Soup’s On event has raised more than $300,000 and increased community awareness for many worthy causes in Yolo County. In 2022, its final year, Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access and will feature the live music of MUMBO GUMBO.

  • Read more about This year's Soup's On will benefit Davis Media Access -- save the date, April 21, 2022
  • Diane Crumley's blog
  • Add new comment

Davis Garden Show, March 10, 2022

Thu, 03/10/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

IMG_0509.jpeg

This week's subjects include:

  •   When to "set out" vegetable seedlings
  •   Reviewing 2021 veg garden results
  •   March garden calendar

and more!

  • Read more about Davis Garden Show, March 10, 2022
  • Add new comment

The Folk Brothers for March 9, 2022: Transatlantic sounds old and new

Wed, 03/09/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

OIP.ioxGMOH6RvuIiol6xMUKrAHaHa.jpeg

On their debut album in 1968, a group of kids from the suburbs of north London covered a Richard Farina song about a city in Nevada. During the pandemic, a singer-songwriter from Edinburgh teamed up with musicians from Tucson. Sometime in between, a guitarist/mandolinist from Nashville became a founding member of a band of transatlantic musicians who play the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow every winter. Find out who they all are on today's show.

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/09/2022
  • Read more about The Folk Brothers for March 9, 2022: Transatlantic sounds old and new

Jazz After Dark March 08 2022

Tue, 03/08/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

jazz logo 2021.jpg

Tonight on Jazz After Dark, jazz from 1940 to 1992: Artie Shaw, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Joe Guy And Thelonius Monk, Nat King Cole, Milt Jackson with Ray Charles, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans, Toots Thielemans, Ella Fitzgerald, Gabor Szabo, Eddie Harris, and Stan Getz with Kenny Barron.

  • Read more about Jazz After Dark March 08 2022
  • Add new comment

Davisville, March 7, 2022: How live music is returning to Davis

Mon, 03/07/2022 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

Misner_and_Smith_Feb 2020.jpg

Live music is music, obviously, but it’s also culture, a reason to get together with friends, part of the economy—and this spring, as in-person performances continue to resume in Davis, it’s another marker of how the Covid pandemic is easing. Knock on wood.

Today we talk with Danny Tomasello, who’s part of the Davis Music Fest, and musicians Sam Misner and Megan Smith about the hodgepodge return of local concerts, what might have changed for keeps during the pandemic, this June’s Fest, and the need for someone to write about local music the way that Wendy Weitzel writes about local businesses and restaurants.

(The photo shows Misner and Smith onstage at Berryessa Brewing in Winters in February 2020, right before the pandemic hit.)

  • Read more about Davisville, March 7, 2022: How live music is returning to Davis
  • Add new comment

Kevin Welch of Boca do Rio and the meaning of a grant, on Listening Lyrics, March 4, 2022

Fri, 03/04/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

Feature-2-768x965.jpg

Boca do Rio was the second band to be awarded the annual Davis Independent Music Initiative (DIMI) grant, in 2021. The committee that awarded it included the 2020 winner, Davis musician Joel Daniel of the Hoots, reported the Sacramento News and Review in July 2021: "The grant is part of an annual effort to boost Davis’s music scene by providing one local band with funding. Daniel’s hope is that it offers musicians who might otherwise seek a career in Sacramento or the Bay Area the support they need to foster their talents closer to home." Applications for the 2022 grant are due by April 1.

We wrap up this show playing a Led Zeppelin song as interpreted by the Alex Jenkins Trio. Here is an All About Jazz review of their newest album, Tri-Cycle, from 2021.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/04/2022
  • Read more about Kevin Welch of Boca do Rio and the meaning of a grant, on Listening Lyrics, March 4, 2022
  • Add new comment

Davis Garden Show, March 3, 2022

Thu, 03/03/2022 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

Prunus blireiana.jpg

The subjects this week include:

  • Night temperatures for seedlings
  • Types of red-leaf plums
  • Tender perennials grown as annuals
  • Planting times for different vegetables

and more.

  • Read more about Davis Garden Show, March 3, 2022
  • Add new comment

The Folk Brothers for March 2, 2022: Stand with Ukraine

Wed, 03/02/2022 - 11:10am | Peter Schiffman

OIP.pJbcbU1KpR322N1h7MefPwHaEq.jpeg

This morning we featured music from DakhaBrakha (pictured), a folk quartet from Kyiv. Also on today's show: new takes on traditional ballads from Joshua Burnell, Cinder Well, and Jim Ghedi, as well as a new take on "Dublin Blues" from Mipso, plus new original tracks from Ernest Troost, Justin Farren, and Jack Sharp. And more!

The Folk Brothers playlist for 03/02/2022
  • Read more about The Folk Brothers for March 2, 2022: Stand with Ukraine

Jazz After Dark March 01 2022

Tue, 03/01/2022 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

jazz logo 2021.jpg

Tonight on Jazz After Dark: Count Basie & His Orchestra, Ethel Ennis, Art Tatum, Gigi Gryce, Lou Donaldson & Grant Green, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Pete Candoli, Claude Bolling Big Band, Pedro Iturralde with Donna Hightower, Ledisi & Metropole Orkest, and Billy Taylor.

  • Read more about Jazz After Dark March 01 2022
  • 1 comment
  • Add new comment

Listen in, a $10K grant for Davis musicians, plus special guest Joel Daniel, on Listening Lyrics

Fri, 02/25/2022 - 4:00pm | Pieter Pastoor

960a7a_d00cb31b2b2b40f0ae4c2a2a775e9948~mv2.jpg

Joel Daniel joins us this week to review the 2022 Davis Independent Music Initiative and City of Davis grant to a Davis-based musician. For more details, visit the DIMI grant page. Plus we have music from Boot Juice, Lillian Francis, Joel Daniel, Racquetbangers, Max Riley, and Stompin' Tom Connors.

  • Read more about Listen in, a $10K grant for Davis musicians, plus special guest Joel Daniel, on Listening Lyrics
  • Add new comment
  • first
  • previous
  • …
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • …
  • next
  • last
KDRT Facebook Button  KDRT Bluesky Button  KDRT Instagram Button 

Search form

SUPPORT KDRT

DONATE YOUR CAR

If you have a van,

please contact us first.

For cars, CALL 855-500-RIDE (7433)

or VISIT CAR EASY



Unless otherwise stated, the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License.

DJ Login - Privacy Policy - Terms of Service