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

  • Episode 470: Joe Moore (Stringband Class with the Canotes and Learning Instruments on a Whim)

    August 27th, 2025  |  1 hr 6 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, clyde davenport, fiddle, 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 Joe Moore! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 469: Ben Nelson (Live at Earful of Fiddle, feat. Becky Hill)

    August 20th, 2025  |  50 mins 18 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flatfooting, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, percussive dance

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Nelson, with special guest Becky Hill! We recorded this back in June in front of a live audience of campers at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 468: Humbletown (Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag)

    August 13th, 2025  |  54 mins 17 secs
    banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flat picking guitar, mandolin, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time mandolin, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Humbletown: Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag! I recorded them yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 467: Emily Doebler (Earful of Fiddle, Arts Funding, and Floor Kicking)

    August 6th, 2025  |  53 mins
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, flatfooting, old time, old time banjo, old time music, percussive dance

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Emily Doebler! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 466: Evie Ladin (Music Is to Do)

    July 30th, 2025  |  45 mins 56 secs
    clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, original songs, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Evie Ladin! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 465: Gray Dawson (Teaching Traditional Music and Addressing Disability at Festivals and Camps)

    July 23rd, 2025  |  50 mins
    banjo, canadian fiddle, canadian music, celtic fiddle, celtic music, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time fiddle, old time music, scottish fiddle, scottish music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Dawson! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 464: [FIXED AUDIO] Ruby John (Indigenous Identity and Fiddling)

    July 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 29 mins
    banjo, canadian fiddle, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fiddling, indigenous fiddle, indigenous fiddling, native american fiddle, 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 Ruby John! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 463: Afton Coombs (Flatfooting)

    July 9th, 2025  |  51 mins 27 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, flatfooting, old time banjo, old time flatfooting, old time music, percussive dance, tap

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 462: Lazy Susan (Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke)

    July 2nd, 2025  |  44 mins 9 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, original songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke, also known as Lazy Susan! I recorded them last week at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.

  • Episode 461: Richie & Rosie (Live from Inside the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 1953 Packard Clipper)

    June 25th, 2025  |  30 mins 34 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, original songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, also known as Richie & Rosie! I recorded them back in April at the Baltimore Old Time Music Festival.

  • Episode 460: Bruce Ling (Sharing Music and Energy feat. Austin Benzing)

    June 18th, 2025  |  59 mins 37 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flatpicking, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, 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 Bruce Ling, with special guest guitarist Austin Benzing! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.

  • Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)

    June 11th, 2025  |  51 mins 31 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, folk songs, guitar, michigan folk music, old time banjo, old time guitar

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Traverse! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.

  • Episode 458: Micah Ling (Dressing Tradition)

    June 4th, 2025  |  1 hr 36 mins
    banjo, banjo duet, cello, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, old time banjo, old time cello, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Micah Ling! We recorded this at her home in Lansing, MI, then we ran out of time, and we finished at Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend.

  • Episode 457: Gray Buchanan (Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend and Original Tunes from Friends)

    May 28th, 2025  |  41 mins 20 secs
    banjo, clawhammer 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 Gray Buchanan! We recorded this on Sunday at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Thanks again for bringing Tall Poppy String Band out, Wheatland!

  • Episode 456: Joseph Decosimo (Shiny New Tunes and Human Limits)

    May 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 20 mins
    banjo, charlie acuff, clawhammer banjo, clyde davenport, fiddle, 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 Joseph Decosimo! We recorded this about a month ago at Sonya Badigian’s place in Durham, NC. Thanks again for hosting us, Sonya!

  • Episode 455: SunFish Duo (Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish)

    May 14th, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins
    clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, guitar, mandolin, old time, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time mandolin, old time music, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish, also known as Sunfish Duo! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.