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 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!

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    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.

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    Episode 454: Kristina R. Gaddy (Early Black American Fiddle and Banjo Music)

    May 7th, 2025  |  1 hr 10 mins
    banjo, black american music, black banjo, fiddle, minstrel banjo, old time banjo, old time fiddle, tackhead banjo

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kristina R. Gaddy! We recorded this at Brad Kolodner’s place in Baltimore.

  • Episode 453: Brian Dolphin (Writing Original Tunes)

    April 30th, 2025  |  1 hr 6 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs, original tunes, songwriting

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brian Dolphin! We recorded this recently in Baltimore.

  • Episode 452: Shanice Richards (Jamaican Church, The Little Mercies, and Old Time with Somethin’ Sassy)

    April 23rd, 2025  |  1 hr 26 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, jean ritchie, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shanice Richards! We recorded this on Monday in Baltimore.

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    Episode 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt)

    April 16th, 2025  |  46 mins 45 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, flat picking guitar, guitar, melodic clawhammer banjo, 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! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs)

    April 9th, 2025  |  59 mins 10 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, guitar, labor songs, old time banjo, old time music, protest music, union songs

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

  • Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard)

    April 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins
    banjo, cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time, old time banjo, old time cello, 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 Joy Adams and Hazel Royer of Big Richard! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance)

    March 26th, 2025  |  40 mins 9 secs
    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 Eva Leach! We recorded this at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA.

  • Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens)

    March 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins
    banjo, bluegrass, bluegrass fiddle, bluegrass songs, 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 Ellie Hakanson! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)

    March 12th, 2025  |  1 hr 14 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fiddle tunes, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs, songwriting, traditional music, traditional songs

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

  • Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs)

    March 5th, 2025  |  49 mins 10 secs
    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 friend is Kat Wallace! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity)

    February 26th, 2025  |  56 mins 38 secs
    banjo, button accordion, celtic guitar, contra dance music, dadgad guitar, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Natterjack, Ezra Jane Landsman, Hayden Stern, and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this earlier in the month in Seattle.

  • Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling)

    February 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 35 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, 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 T-Claw! We recorded this on Saturday at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA.