
Cameron DeWhitt
Host of Get Up in the Cool
Cameron DeWhitt is a clawhammer banjoist and Old Time musician living in Philadelphia. He hosts the weekly podcast Get Up in the Cool, which features conversations and musical collaborations with some of Old Time'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. And with over 80 episodes released and no signs of slowing, Get Up in the Cool is quickly becoming one of the largest available archives of new Old Time recordings.
Cameron is the innovator behind "pitchfork-style" banjo, a three-finger clawhammer technique that allows the player unprecedented access to melody, harmony, and rhythms typically roped off from clawhammer players. With pitchfork-style, he improvises over tunes in a way that most old time banjoists would only attempt with meticulous arrangement. In Cameron's hands, traditional melodies are transformed from repeated statements into philosophical discussions, accelerating the folk process in a single performance.
Cameron DeWhitt has hosted 387 Episodes.
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Episode 334: Sujata Allan (Sourcing Music from Friends and Naming Tunes After Dogs)
January 18th, 2023 | 51 mins 26 secs
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, 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 Sujata Allan. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 333: Karen Dale (Old Time, Irish, and Contra Dance Music)
January 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, contra dance music, fiddle, irish 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 Karen Dale. We recorded this on Monday in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 332: Patrick Gunning (Melodic Old Time Guitar, Cittern, and Swedish Fiddle)
January 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
banjo, cittern, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flatpicked guitar, flatpicking, flatpicking guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music, swedish fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Patrick Gunning. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 331: Devin Forest-Hines (Bring Nonchalant Back to Old Time)
December 28th, 2022 | 51 mins 1 sec
banjo, clawhammer banjo, 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 Devin Forest-Hines. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 330: Dave Mount (Old Time Phases, Kentucky Square Bowing, and Learning Fiddle Under Pressure)
December 21st, 2022 | 38 mins 57 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, kentucky fiddling, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, square bowing
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dave Mount. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 329: Don Minnerly (Learning from Tommy Jarrell)
December 14th, 2022 | 36 mins 9 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, round peak, tommy jarrell
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Don Minnerly. We recorded this last week in his home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 328: Lillian Sawyer (Leaving Bluegrass for Sparkly Tunes)
December 7th, 2022 | 51 mins 16 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music, swedish fiddle
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 last week in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 327: Kendl Winter (Clawhammer and Three-Finger Banjo)
November 30th, 2022 | 42 mins 10 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, original tunes, three finger banjo, three-finger banjo
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kendl Winter. We recorded this last weekend at her home in Olympia, WA.
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Episode 326: Maya Whitmont and Melissa Mark (Old Time in the Pacific Northwest)
November 23rd, 2022 | 54 mins 22 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, 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 Maya Whitmont and Melissa Mark. We recorded this last weekend at their home in Seattle.
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Episode 325: Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer (Social Singing and Centering Youth in Traditional Music)
November 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
a'capella, social singing, traditional music, unaccompanied singing
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer. We recorded this two weekends ago at Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend in Rhododendron, OR.
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Episode 324: Mary Garvey (Writing Regional Traditional Songs)
November 9th, 2022 | 47 mins 29 secs
ballad, original songs, pacific northwest, social singing, traditional song
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mary Garvey. We recorded this last weekend at Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend in Rhododendron, OR.
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Episode 323: Jake Loew (MIDI Fiddle Tunes, Old Time Trolling, and Missouri Repertoire)
November 2nd, 2022 | 53 mins 17 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, midi fiddle tunes, missouri tunes, novelty music, 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 Jake Loew. We recorded this in August at his home in Denver, Colorado.
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Episode 322: Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose (Banjo Identity Crises and Bonus Notes)
October 26th, 2022 | 53 mins 20 secs
banjo, banjo duet, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, original songs, three-finger banjo
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose. We recorded this in August at Swallow Hill in Denver, Colorado.
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Episode 321: Frank Evans (Clawhammer, Clifftop, and Nashville)
October 19th, 2022 | 43 mins 39 secs
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, 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 Frank Evans. We recorded this in August at Clifftop in West Virginia.
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Episode 320: Megan Lynch Chowning (Contest Fiddling, the Pleasure of Teaching, and The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project)
October 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 23 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, john hartford, 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 Megan Lynch Chowning. We recorded this in August at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson in Nashville, TN.
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Episode 319: Stillhouse Junkies (Off the Clock Music)
October 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 15 mins
banjo, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, octave mandolin, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs, twin fiddling
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Stillhouse Junkies. We recorded this in September at my home in Portland, Oregon.