Get Up in the Cool

Episode 516: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 2) (FIXED AUDIO)

July 15th, 2026  |  53 mins 38 secs

banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, country music, fiddle, jean ritchie, new mexican tunes, 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. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.

Episode 515: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 1)

July 8th, 2026  |  1 hr 9 mins

banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, malawi music, metis, metis fiddling, 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. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.

Request For Upcoming Call Up In The Cool 10 Year Anniversary Edition

July 1st, 2026  |  24 secs

Next week is the ten year anniversary of Get Up in the Cool! I'm going to do a call up in the cool episode, but I need your questions/favorite moments from the last 10 years/tune and song requests. You can email a voice memo or written submission to [email protected]
I'll be working on this Monday and Tuesday, so try and have these in before the weekend is over if you're going to participate. Thanks y'all!

Episode 514: Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser (of The Ridge Ramblers)

July 1st, 2026  |  1 hr 4 mins

banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, 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 Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at Redwing Roots Festival in Virginia.

Episode 513: Justin Golden (Blues Guitar and Old Time Banjo)

June 24th, 2026  |  39 mins 35 secs

banjo, black banjo, blues, blues guitar, clawhammer banjo, finger-style guitar, guitar, mississippi john hurt, old time, old time banjo, old time music

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Justin Golden! We recorded this last weekend in Richmond, VA.

Episode 512: Sweeten the Third (Banjo and Flatfooting) (see show notes for supercut of dancing)

June 17th, 2026  |  55 mins 56 secs

banjo, buck dancing, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, clogging, flatfooting, old time banjo, old time music, old time songs, percussive dance

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs, here to talk about our new band, Sweeten the Third! We recorded this earlier in the month at TransTrad in Olympia, WA.

Episode 511: Miriam Hacksaw (Malayali Tunes, Political Music, and Liberatory Spirituality)

June 10th, 2026  |  58 mins 1 sec

banjo, bones, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, malayali tunes, odl time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time tunes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Miriam Hacksaw! We recorded this last weekend at TransTrad in Olympia, WA.

Episode 510: Tall Poppy String Band (Tunes You Can Jam from our Second Album)

June 3rd, 2026  |  1 hr 14 mins

banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, kickstarter, old time, 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 friends are my friends in Tall Poppy String Band, Morgan Harris and George Jackson! Mostly Morgan, but George sent a couple fiddle recordings over. We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.

Episode 509: Sasha Stolasz (Cool Fiddle Moms and Learning from YouTube)

May 27th, 2026  |  46 mins 20 secs

banjo duet, clawhammer, clawhammer duet, fiddle, irish music, irish tunes, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes, polska, polskas, scandi fiddle, scandi tunes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sasha Stolasz! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.

Episode 508: Simon Chrisman (Hammered Dulcimer)

May 20th, 2026  |  1 hr 13 mins

banjo, clawhammer banjo, dulcimer, fiddle tunes, hammered dulcimer, old time banjo, old time music

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

Episode 507: Devon Léger (Music Journalism and Publicity for Traditional Music)

May 13th, 2026  |  1 hr 42 mins

acadian fiddle, acadian music, banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time fiddle, old time music, quebecois, quebecois fiddle

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devon Léger! We recorded this Friday afternoon at his home in Seattle.

Episode 506: Isabelle Kirk (Women in Old Time)

May 6th, 2026  |  1 hr 22 mins

banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time, old time backup guitar, 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 Isabelle Kirk! We recorded this on Monday night at my home in Portland, OR.

Episode 505: Probably Polly String Band (Folk Punk, Playing for Square Dances, How to Start an Old Time Scene)

May 1st, 2026  |  53 mins 34 secs

banjo, clawhammer banjo, folk punk, non-binary, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, trans, twin fiddling

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Andy, Mieke, Avery, Becca, Daria, and Morgan of Probably Polly String Band! We recorded this a couple hours ago at my home in Portland, OR. Sorry this one’s out late folks.

Episode 504: Portland Pub Sing (Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, Jonathan Lay)

April 22nd, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

ballads, old time, old time music, original songs, pub sing, pub singing, sea shanties, social singing, traditional music, traditional songs

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Lots of friends this week; we’ve got Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, and Jonathan Lay of the Portland Pub Sing! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.

Episode 503: Sandol Astrausky (Fiddles Are Scary, Jeff Todd Titon, and Teaching Old Time Music)

April 15th, 2026  |  1 hr 11 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 friend is Sandol Astrausky! We recorded this earlier this month at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI, and he’ll join us later in the interview.

Episode 502: Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers (Old Time Music in Illinois)

April 8th, 2026  |  1 hr 7 mins

banjo, clawhammer banjo, dear old illinois, fiddle, guitar, illinois fiddle tunes, old time backup guitar, 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 Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers! We recorded this on Saturday at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI.