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Events & Workshops

Camera Basics: Audio Recording

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 7:00pm
Final Cut Pro X: Editing Basics

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 7:00pm
General Orientation

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 6:30pm

KDRT Highlights

Win General Admission Weekend Passes to Aftershock Festival 2019!

Tune into Reaper Radio on KDRT from 10 pm to Midnight Friday, Sept. 20th for a chance to win a pair of general admission weekend passes to Aftershock 2019 - Oct. 11th -13th at Discovery Park, Sacramento. Described as the largest rock/metal festival in California, it has sold out for the past few years, so this year they've expanded to a 3-day festival. Listen tonight and KDRT DJ "The Alchemist" will announce this week's featured artist at the beginning of Reaper Radio. When you hear the featured artist, log onto the KDRT 95.7 FM Facebook page and enter the title of the song played.

Joel Daniel Shares His Music and Story. Recorded Sep 13th, 2019

Joel Daniel - listen in now

Joel is a longtime resident of Davis, California. In his twenties he started a band with his closest friends called Shayna and the Bulldog ("SatB") (https://shayna.bandcamp.com/), an Americana / Indie Rock band. They made two albums together and played hundreds of shows throughout the Western and Southwestern US.

Somewhere along the way, Joel started a children's band called, The Hoots, (www.hootquarters.com). For this project, he's written four albums of material, won countless awards - including: a Parent's Choice Award - sold many records, and played hundreds of shows. Joel started producing an educational children's video series called, Hoot Quarters, starring an owl, who thinks he knows everything, but doesn't, and the The Hoots, who help said owl, Oliver, along the right path.

Recently Joel started writing some new "grown up" music. In the summer of 2019 he started to play these songs out in public. They are the first songs he would consider to be solo songs - outside of The Hoots -that he has written and performed. He hopes to record them in the coming months and play them out in a more band oriented context in the near future.

Social Links: https://www.facebook.com/joeldanielmusic

Jazz After Dark September 10 2019

Coming up tonight at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark:

Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Annie Ross, Jimmy Raney, Chico Hamilton, Nancy Wilson, Stan Getz, Stuff Smith, Claude Bolling Big Band, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Farmer, Eiji Kitamura.

Live 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA.

Replays Monday 11pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm.

Playlists, archives, and RSS Feed here: https://kdrt.org/blogs/don-shor-0

Davisville, Sept. 9, 2019: Bike City’s plans feature original plays, sketch comedy, improv, more

One of the offbeat ways to measure a town is to look at the variety, ambition and success of its live theater. Davis has been home to different theater startups this decade. Some endure and some have shut, but the creative impulse to bring more theater to Davis – and the belief that Davis will support the interest – continues. Today we talk with two people from the not-quite-2-year-old Bike City Theatre Company: J.R. Yancher, the producing artistic director, and Sarah Marsh-Krauter, the literary manager and dramaturg.

Cedar Cady, Live in the Studio, Recorded on Sept. 6th, 2019

Cedar Cady spent the hour with us. Cedar is a Davis native and at a young age fell in love with the violin. Cedar talks about his life with music and his passion for playing. Currently he plays in and around the Sacramento area either by himself or with several groups that he adds his musical touch to. Listen in as he explains the difference between a violin and a fiddle. Cedar also played two live numbers for us. The playlist below lists the selections we played. Music that Cedar enjoys and inspired him.

Dealing with FCC Fallout

This column was originally published in The Davis Enterprise on Sept. 6, 2019

By Autumn Labbé-Renault

Since the Federal Communications Commission voted to tighten rules governing the franchise fees cable companies pay to cities, people are asking me how will it affect Davis, and the public, education, and government channels here — the first two of these operated by Davis Media Access, the third by the city.

Connecting to What Matters

If this is your first visit to our website, welcome, and thanks for visiting.

Davis Media Access (DMA) is a non-profit community media & technology center currently celebrating its 30th year of serving Davis and environs. Elsewhere on this website you can read about what we do; the purpose of my message here is underscore why we do it.

DMA’s community-centered work connects us to what matters: newsmakers, schools, families, youth, teachers, local elections, policy makers, community activists, neighborhoods, social justice activists, other non-profits, businesses, libraries, veterans, senior citizens, musicians, artists, and more.

Teaching people to create media, and providing a vibrant community learning center with a mind-boggling array of services, is what DMA has done for 30 years. Our work is made possible by the City of Davis, the Davis Joint Unified School District, and generous community supporters.

These are weird and woolly times for media nationally, which ups the imperative to support truly community-based, independent media outlets in the precious few places where they still thrive. This is what DMA and KDRT do, and it’s what we stand for. I invite you to explore the website, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter @dmafeed and Instagram.

Davis Media Access — Many Voices, One Community

Autumn Labbe-Renault, Executive Director

DJUSD Graduations FAQ

How can I get a Commemorative DVD of a DJUSD HS Graduation? All five HS graduations will be recorded again this year by Davis Media Access. DVDs are available for sale here: https://djusd.davismedia.org/order-dvd

Will any of the graduations be broadcast live on DJUSD.tv Comcast Channel 17 or streamed live on the Internet? Not this year.

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Davis Media Access (DMA) is a dba of Davis Community Television, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. DMA is a community media center serving Davis, CA and surrounding areas. Our mission is to enrich and strengthen the community by providing alternatives to commercial media for local voices, opinions and creative endeavors. Our major projects are KDRT 95.7 FM, Davis Community Television and DJUSD Channel 17.