Get Up in the Cool
Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends
About the show
Get Up in the Cool features conversations and musical collaborations with some of Old Time music's heaviest hitters, like Ken Perlman, Adam Hurt, Spencer & Rains, and Jake Blount. As an interviewer, Cameron balances an effusive curiosity for the potential of traditional music with a dogged respect for its origins. Serving as audience surrogate, Cameron asks illuminating questions to Old Time's best and brightest while telling the larger story of the tradition's modern era.
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Episodes
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Episode 434: A Very Church for Dogs Christmas (with Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts)
December 18th, 2024 | 59 mins 37 secs
banjo, carols, christmas, christmas carols, christmas music, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, holiday songs, old time, old time fiddle, old time music, old time piano, piano
Happy holidays and welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Seasonal Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts, which makes this a Church for Dogs Christmas Special! We recorded this Monday night at Jonathan’s home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 433: Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn (Original Tunes, Galico Tuning, and Old Time Cello)
December 11th, 2024 | 54 mins 17 secs
banjo, cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time cello, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 432: Brandon Godman (Buying Violins for a Living, Groovy Fiddling, and Writing Original Tunes)
December 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brandon Godman! We recorded this in November at Brandon’s San Francisco shop, The Fiddle Mercantile.
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Episode 431: Omar Ruiz-Lopez (with special guest Jason Krivo Flores)
November 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
banjo, bass guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guittaron, old time fiddle, original songs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Omar Ruiz-Lopez, with special guest Jason Krivo Flores! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 430: Irene Herrmann (Old Time Mandolin and Fiddle and The Harmony Sisters)
November 20th, 2024 | 55 mins 11 secs
alice gerrard, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time mandolin, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Irene Herrmann! We recorded this last week at her home in Santa Cruz, CA.
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Episode 429: Forrest Carroll (Old Time for Oneself)
November 13th, 2024 | 50 mins 40 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Forrest Carroll! We recorded this in October at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle, WA.
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Episode 428: Sadie Gustafson-Zook (Old Time Fiddle and Songwriting)
November 6th, 2024 | 57 mins 12 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, original songs, songwriting
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sadie Gustafson-Zook! We recorded this in October in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 427: Morgan Harris (Alone Will Tell)
October 30th, 2024 | 50 mins 15 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, flat picking, flat picking guitar, flatpicking, guitar, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! I interviewed her back in August in NY state on a day off of tour with Tall Poppy String Band. Thanks again to Lillian and Adam Kology for hosting us!
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Episode 426: Call Up in the Cool No. 5
October 23rd, 2024 | 49 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time, old time banjo, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. It’s another Call Up in the Cool episode! Thanks for your questions and tune requests, folks.
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Episode 425: Hildaland (Louise Bichan and Ethan Setiawan)
October 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
banjo, clawhammer, mandolin, octave mandolin, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time mandolin, orkney, scottish fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Louise Bichan and Ethan Setiawan of Hildaland! We recorded this at my place a few weeks ago.
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Episode 424: Bex Bee and Will Jevne (Old Growth Old Time)
October 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Bex Bee and Will Jevne, organizers of Old Growth Old Time in Seattle! We recorded this at Will’s place on Saturday in Port Townsend, WA.
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Episode 423: Tristan Scroggins (The Old Time 100)
October 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 40 mins
banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, old time, old time banjo, old time mandolin, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Tristan Scroggins! We recorded this last month at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 422: Maggie Lind (Teaching Old Time, Banjo Tunes, and Women Banjoists)
September 25th, 2024 | 46 mins 41 secs
2 finger banjo, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Maggie Lind. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 421: Adam Hinkel (Black Sheep Banjos)
September 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Adam Hinkel of Black Sheep Banjos. We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 420: Mark Olitsky (Changing as a Musician)
September 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 22 mins
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, old time, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mark Olitsky. We recorded this last month at the Minnesota Bluegrass August Festival. Thanks for having us!
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Episode 419: Zach Meyer (Old Time in Seattle and Boston)
September 4th, 2024 | 44 mins 30 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, country song, fiddle, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Zach Meyer. We recorded this last month at his home in Cambridge, MA.