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 244: Gaye Harrison (Selections from Dear Old Illinois)

    April 28th, 2021  |  52 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, dear old illinois, fiddle, illinois fiddle 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 Gaye Harrison! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 243: Sheila & Jesse (Twin Fiddling)

    April 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes, twin fiddling

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sheila & Jesse! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 242: Kalia Yeagle (Professing Old Time Music, Asking Better Questions, and the Alaska Fiddle Sound)

    April 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    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 Kalia Yeagle! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 241: Seth Shumate (Old Time Harmonica)

    April 7th, 2021  |  51 mins
    blues, blues harmonica, clawhammer banjo, harmonica, old time banjo, old time harmonica, old time music, pre-war blues, quills

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Seth Shumate! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 240: Carling Berkhout (Paths to Old Time, Writing Original Tunes, and Musical Identity)

    March 31st, 2021  |  47 mins 5 secs
    clawhammer banjo, guitar, old time banjo, original banjo tunes, original songs, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carling Berkhout! We recorded this two weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 239: Sarah Kate Morgan (Mountain Dulcimer)

    March 24th, 2021  |  59 mins 7 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, old time banjo, old time dulcimer, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sarah Kate Morgan! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 238: Dante and Eros Faulk (Old Time, Celtic, and Original Cello and Fiddle Music)

    March 17th, 2021  |  52 mins 40 secs
    banjo, cello, celtic, celtic fiddle, celtice cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time cello, 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 Dante & Eros Faulk! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 237: Betse and Clarke (The Music in the Water)

    March 10th, 2021  |  1 hr 32 mins
    bluegrass, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time three-finger banjo, original fiddle tunes, original songs, two-finger banjo

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Betse & Clarke! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 236: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time Electric Guitar)

    March 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    fender rhodes, hammond organ, keyboard, old time electric guitar, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shohei Tsutsumi! We recorded this about a month ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 235: Cameron Knowler (Old Time Sensitive Flatpicker)

    February 24th, 2021  |  51 mins 43 secs
    bluegrass guitar, cameron duet, clawhammer banjo, flatpicking guitar, old time banjo, old time flatpicking, 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 Cameron Knowler! We recorded this a few weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 234: Sophie Wellington (Loves Her Complex)

    February 17th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flatfooting, 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 Sophie Wellington, with special guest guitarist Dan Bui! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 233: Beverly Street String Band (Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington)

    February 10th, 2021  |  42 mins 30 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time mandolin, old time music, original tunes, twin fiddle

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington of the Beverly Street String Band! We recorded this a few weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 232: Eden and Lukas Pool (The Ozark Banjo Co.)

    February 3rd, 2021  |  43 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time piano

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Eden and Lukas Pool! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 231: Annie Staninec (The Bluegrass vs. Old Time Dichotomy, Improvisation, and Musical Upbringing)

    January 27th, 2021  |  48 mins 18 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 Annie Staninec! We recorded this in person, outside my front door, socially distant back in early November.

  • Episode 230: Isa Burke (Fiddle Camp, Murder Ballad Discourse, and Choosing a Music Career)

    January 20th, 2021  |  57 mins 54 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs, original songs, traditional songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Isa Burke! We recorded last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

  • Episode 229: Alicia Jardine (Clawhammering Swedish Tunes and Queering Traditional Music)

    January 13th, 2021  |  55 mins 36 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music, old-time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music, swedish fiddle tunes, swedish music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alicia Jardine! We recorded in December over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.