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Traditional Tunes and Bardic Song from the Celtic Lands

This week's session brings forth the percussive sounds of Colm Phelan, from Scotland the fiddling band Rant, the band Runa, Maura O'Connell, Sarah McQuaid's St. Buryan sessions, Andrei Krylov with Lana Ross, Donovan, Ashely Davis, Jig Jam, John Doyle, Dougie Maclean, The Baileys and a selection from the Celtic Fiddle Fest, Live in Brittany. 

Tune in live on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to noon at KDRT 95.7FM with replays Monday 8-9pm, Saturday 6-7pm. Outside the broadcast area you can stream at kdrt.org, or subscribe to the Celtic Songlines podcast on Apple podcasts. 

74. UC Davis

Explore how a 5,300-acre University came to exist in the little farm town that was Davisville, California. Davis was designated as a University of California campus in 1959 and is now the largest campus in the University of California system. Find out how its mascot Gunrock got his name and why the campus has red London double deck buses. UC Davis chancellor Gary May tells us about his path to engineering, his humongous comic book collection, and his favorite Star Trek character. Then visit London where Big Ben's clock is still adjusted with an old penny and half the London Underground is actually above the ground.

 

Davisville, June 26, 2023: Don Roth, who helped bring major artists to Davis, calls it a career

If you’ve enjoyed a performance at the Mondavi — maybe the Beethoven “Sonatathon,” Bo Diddley concert or the Maria Callas hologram with the Sacramento Philharmonic — today’s guest had something to do with that. This August, after 17 years, Don Roth is retiring as executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. Today on Davisville we talk about choosing performers, the influence of tech, how the Mondavi spent the pandemic, and why pianist Stewart Goodyear’s “Sonatathon” was among Roth's favorite moments.

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