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 196: Helen Hakanson (Hakanson Family Old Time Matriarch)
May 27th, 2020 | 58 mins 25 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, country songs, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, twin fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Helen Hakanson, with special returning guest Ellie Hakanson. We recorded this at Helen’s home outside of Portland.
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Episode 195: Ruthie Dornfeld (Likes a Lot of Things)
May 20th, 2020 | 31 mins 56 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 Ruthie Dornfeld. We recorded this back in February at her home in Seattle, Washington.
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Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Dear Crow (Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay)
May 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music
Check out Penka Jane and Brian's wonderful duo in this set just for you!
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Episode 194: Collin Stackhouse (Has a New Album and No Tour)
May 13th, 2020 | 47 mins 35 secs
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, 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 Collin Stackhouse. We recorded this a month ago in my front yard in Portland, Oregon, about 8 feet apart, with masks.
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Episode 193: Jerry Gallaher (Banjo Playing is Smoke and Mirrors)
May 6th, 2020 | 41 mins 56 secs
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, original tune
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jerry Gallaher. We recorded this in February in Jerry’s home in Seattle.
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Episode 192: Ella Korth (Bluegrass Guitar and Clawhammer Banjo)
April 29th, 2020 | 46 mins 5 secs
bluegrass guitar, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, guitar, 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 Ella Korth. We recorded this in February during the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, Washington.
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Episode 191: West of Roan (Channing Showalter and Annie Schermer)
April 22nd, 2020 | 45 mins 14 secs
acapella, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, twin fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Channing Showalter and Annie Schermer of West of Roan. We recorded this in February during the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia Washington.
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Episode 190: Joel Brown (Is Over 6 Feet Away, I Promise)
April 15th, 2020 | 44 mins 10 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 Joel Brown. We recorded this last week in my front yard in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 189: Josh Larios (The Gateway Drug to Oldtime, Male Privilege, and Oldtime Etiquette in Digital Spaces)
April 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 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 Josh Larios. We recorded this back in February at the Ballard Library in Seattle.
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Episode 188: Kate Lichtenstein (Bruce Greene Tunes, Voluntary Recorder Lessons, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering)
April 1st, 2020 | 52 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 Kate Lichtenstein. We recorded this during the Oly Old Time Festival in February at the home of former guests of the show Ellie and Annie Davis from The Sassafras Sisters.
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Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Steptune (Danielle Enblom, Oona Grady, and James Gascoyne)
March 27th, 2020 | 45 mins 19 secs
clawhammer banjo, irish fiddle, irish guitar, irish stepdancing, percussive dance
Danielle Enblom and her trio Steptune play some trad and original Irish music!
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Episode 187: Devon Legér (Acadian Fiddling)
March 25th, 2020 | 1 hr 7 mins
acadian fiddle, acadian music, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Devon Legér. We recorded this in February at his home in Seattle.
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Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Andrew Finn Magill (Evolution of Irish & Scottish Fiddletunes in American Music)
March 20th, 2020 | 39 mins 18 secs
fiddle, irish fiddle, old time music, scottish fiddle
Former guest of the show Andrew Finn Magill gives a thoroughly musical workshop on the evolution of Irish and Scottish Fiddletunes in American Music!
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Episode 186: Kaitlin Chamberlin (Canadian Banjo Players)
March 18th, 2020 | 53 mins 14 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 Kaitlin Chamberlin. We recorded this a few weeks ago at my home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 185: W.B. Reid and Bonnie Zahnow (Explain West Coast Trad Music in the 70's)
March 11th, 2020 | 40 mins 50 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guachi fiddlng, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, twin fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are W.B. Reid and Bonnie Zahnow. We recorded this a few weeks ago at their home in Seattle.
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Episode 184: Lisa Ornstein (Politcal Organizing, Trad Music Mentors, and Original Tunes)
March 4th, 2020 | 54 mins 31 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, québécois fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Lisa Ornstein! We recorded this a few weeks ago at her home in Olympia during the Oly Old Time Gathering.