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 494: Sparrow Smith (Writing in the Old Time Idiom)

    February 11th, 2026  |  1 hr 4 mins
    backup guitar, banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, original songs, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sparrow Smith! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 493: Call Up in the Cool No. 8

    February 4th, 2026  |  56 mins 26 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, folk music, labor songs, old time banjo, old time music, old time piano, palestinian folk music, piano

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you, because this a Call Up in the Cool episode.

  • Episode 492: Sue Truman (The Crankie Factory)

    January 28th, 2026  |  1 hr 19 mins
    back-up guitar, banjo, clawhammer banjo, crankies, fiddle, folk art, guitar, 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 Sue Truman, with special guests Jerry Gallaher and WB Reid! We recorded this at Jinny Macrae’s home during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.

  • Episode 491: Annie and Ellie Davis (ETSU, Learning from Source Recordings, and Old Time Ownership)

    January 21st, 2026  |  1 hr 21 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, coon creek girls, fiddle, guitar, old time backup guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time songs, old time tunes, original songs, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Annie and Ellie Davis! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka)

    January 14th, 2026  |  42 mins 34 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, nyckelharpa, recorder, scandi tunes, scandinavian music, swedish fiddle, tenor guitar, twin fiddle

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Liam Barnes, Isabel Dammann, and Collin Stackhouse of Butterchurch, AKA Smörkyrka! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams)

    January 7th, 2026  |  45 mins 21 secs
    clawhammer banjo, fiddle tunes, guitar, old time, old time music, old time songs, old time tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Will McKay! We recorded this on Monday in my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor)

    December 31st, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins
    arco bass, banjo, bass, bass fiddle, bass fiddling, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time bass, old time music, upright bass

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eli Broxham! We recorded this earlier in the month at his home in Nashville.

  • Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth)

    December 24th, 2025  |  50 mins 22 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, john hartford, mandolin, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time mandolin, 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 Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth, of The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project! We recorded this last week at Rachel’s home in Madison, TN.

  • Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle)

    December 17th, 2025  |  45 mins 3 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time fiddle, old time music, scandinavian music, swedish fiddle, swedish music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brittany Haas! We recorded this last weekend at her home in Nashville.

  • Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow)

    December 10th, 2025  |  56 mins 46 secs
    banjo, christmas music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, irish fiddle tunes, irish music, old time, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, traditional music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.

  • Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest)

    December 3rd, 2025  |  59 mins 57 secs
    banjo, blues, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs, oregon music, pacific northwest, pnw, washington music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Seamons! We recorded this last weekend at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar)

    November 26th, 2025  |  42 mins 51 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fiddle tunes, irish back-up guitar, 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 friends are River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this last week at Alex’s home in Olympia, WA.

  • Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller)

    November 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 19 mins
    clawhammer banjo, dwight diller, old time, 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 Darin Gentry! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 481: Lillian Sawyer (Agendaless Music)

    November 12th, 2025  |  1 hr 3 mins
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle tunes, old time banjo, old time music, original fiddle tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Lillian Sawyer! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 480: Eros Faulk (Living in Portland and Playing Irish Tunes Without Sets)

    November 5th, 2025  |  45 mins 8 secs
    clawhammer banjo, fiddle tunes, irish banjo, irish clawhammer, irish fiddle, irish music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eros Faulk! We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 479: Golden Shoals (Live at Old Growth Old Time w/ Special Guest Host Doreen Ditties of Tradwife)

    October 29th, 2025  |  46 mins 32 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time, 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 friends are Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals! They recorded this a few weeks ago in front of a live audience at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle. I say they and not we because this episode of Get Up in the Cool actually had a guest host, Doreen Ditties, of Tradwife Stringband.