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
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Episode 211: Leela Grace (Family Bands, Songwriting, and Undoing Bad Music Education)
September 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
acapella, banjo, clawhammer banjo, minstrel banjo, old time music, original music, original songs, traditional music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Leela Grace! We recorded this last week in person in her backyard, a little more than six feet apart.
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Episode 210: Aaron Jonah Lewis (Classic Banjo and Ragtime)
September 2nd, 2020 | 58 mins 39 secs
banjo uke, classic banjo, fiddle, fiddle rags, old time music, piano, ragtime
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Aaron Jonah Lewis and special guest accompanist Grace van’t Hof! We recorded this in June for Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp, over Zoom in front of a lovely Zoom audience.
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Episode 209: Grace van't Hof (Pop, Country, and Queerness in the Early 20th Century)
August 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, country music, early 20th century music, minstrel banjo, old time music, ukulele
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Grace van’t Hof! We recorded this via Skype a few weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 208: Maddie Witler (Mandolin in Old Time and Lateral Learning)
August 19th, 2020 | 48 mins 16 secs
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, mandolin, old time music, willie nelson
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Maddie Witler! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 207: Nicole Singer (Traditional Unaccompanied Singing)
August 12th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
acapella, old time music, traditional songs, unaccompanied singing
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nicole Singer! We recorded this via Skype two weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 206: Rupert Deese (Far Flung Fiddle Contest)
August 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fretless banjo, guitar, harmonica, minstrel banjo, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time harmonica, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rupert Deese! We recorded this in person in July in front of my home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 205: Tatiana Hargreaves (Music For Others and Music For Yourself)
July 28th, 2020 | 53 mins 37 secs
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 Tatiana Hargreaves! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 204: Brandi Pace (Decolonizing the Music Room)
July 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 20 mins
banjo duet, black string band music, clawhammer banjo, jazz, 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 Brandi Pace! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 203: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (Hold Each Other Up)
July 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
banjo, cello banjo, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer uke, old time music, uke, ukulele
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 202: Josh Larios (Explains Low-Latency Online Jamming)
July 8th, 2020 | 57 mins 13 secs
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 Josh Larios! We recorded this via JamKazam last week, Josh in Seattle, me in Portland, and unlike my recent Skype episodes, we played the musical portions at the same time, while hearing each other, and this episode is all about how that is possible!
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Episode 201: Albin Ekman (Swedish Fiddle Music and Dance)
July 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 22 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, swedish fiddle, swedish music, swedish trad
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Albin Ekman! We recorded this via Skype recently and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 200: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 200! Ft. Rachel Eddy)
June 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 41 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 guest HOST is Rachel Eddy! They graciously agreed to interview me for this, Get Up in the Cool’s 200th episode. We recorded this via Skype recently and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 199: Jake Blount (Spider Tales)
June 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 25 mins
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fretless banjo, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, tackhead banjo
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jake Blount! We recorded this via Skype a couple weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 198: Tony Mates (Old Time Community Service)
June 10th, 2020 | 42 mins 25 secs
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 Tony Mates, with special guest guitarist Kate Lichtenstein! This is my last pre-covid 19 episode. We recorded this in Olympia Washington during the Oly Old Time Festival.
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Episode 197: Eric Schweizer (Old Time Fiddlers Associations, Bluegrass, and Trad Music Commitment Issues)
June 3rd, 2020 | 50 mins 24 secs
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 Eric Schweizer! We recorded this over 6 feet apart, with masks, outside my home in Portland, Oregon.
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How to help/where to donate! Support George Floyd and the protestors in Minneapolis
May 31st, 2020 | 8 mins
bailout, donations, george floyd, justice, protest, reparations
Thanks to former guest of the show Sonya Badigian for compiling this awesome list!