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 183: Joe Seamons (NW Folk Music and What You Get When You Give Up Whiteness)

    February 26th, 2020  |  1 hr 3 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fingerstyle guitar, nw folk 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 Joe Seamons! We recorded this at the house of future guests of the show WB Reid and Bonnie Zahnow in Seattle.

  • Episode 182: Sami Braman (Of The Onlies)

    February 19th, 2020  |  43 mins 51 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 Sami Braman of The Onlies! We recorded this at my home back in January during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.

  • Episode 181: Rina Rossi and AJ Srubas (Half of Steam Machine!)

    February 12th, 2020  |  42 mins 32 secs
    banjo, bb tunes, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, midwestern fiddle, 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 friends are Rina Rossi and AJ Srubas of Steam Machine! We recorded this at my home during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering back in January.

  • Episode 180: The Sassafras Sisters (Live at The Portland Old Time Music Gathering)

    February 5th, 2020  |  37 mins 48 secs
    banjo, bass, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time bass, 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 Ellie Davis, Ruby Neatherlin, and Annie Davis, AKA The Sassafras Sisters! We recorded this at the Portland Old Time Music Gathering back in January.

  • Episode 179: The Canote Brothers (Teaching Stringband Class, Old Time Community, and The Peculiar Modern Folk Process)

    January 29th, 2020  |  48 mins 6 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time songs, original fiddle tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are The Canote Brothers! We recorded this at my home a couple weeks ago during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.

  • Episode 178: Mark Tamsula and Barbara Rosner (SW Pennsylvania Tunes)

    January 22nd, 2020  |  44 mins 40 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, sw pennsylvania fiddle tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Mark Tamsula and Barbara Rosner! We recorded this at their room in the Northwest Portland Hostel last week during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.

  • Episode 177: Jinny Macrae (Old Time Country Songs)

    January 15th, 2020  |  39 mins 3 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, country music, guitar, mandolin, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jinny Macrae! We recorded this in my home in Portland Oregon last Friday.

  • Episode 176: Fanny Rose (Kauai Old Time Gathering)

    January 8th, 2020  |  44 mins 43 secs
    banjo, cello, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, 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 Fanny Rose, organizer of the Kauai Old Time Gathering. We recorded this right before the festival in Waimea.

  • Episode 175: Evie Ladin (Live at the Kauai Old Time Gathering 2019)

    January 1st, 2020  |  38 mins 23 secs
    banjo, banjo duet, buck dancing, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, flatfooting, old time music, percussive dance, upright bass

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Evie Ladin, with special guest Keith Terry! We recorded this at the Kauai Old Time Gathering back in November.

  • Episode 174: Get Up in the Christmas (with Ellie and Amy Hakanson)

    December 22nd, 2019  |  54 mins 26 secs
    banjo, christmas music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, nyckelharpa, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, twin fiddle

    Welcome to Get Up in the Christmas: Christmas Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week's guests are Ellie and Amy Hakanson! We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 173: Little Missy (Shona Carr and Jane Rothfield)

    December 18th, 2019  |  44 mins 49 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, tenor guitar

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Shona Carr and Jane Rothfield of Little Missy! We recorded this in their cabin at the Kauai Old Time Gathering back in November.

  • Episode 172: Lone Piñon (Live at the Kauai Old Time Gathering 2019)

    December 10th, 2019  |  45 mins 54 secs
    accordian, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, new mexcian fiddle, new mexican music, new mexico, 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 friends are Tanya Nuñez, Jordan Wax and Noah Martinez of Lone Piñon! We recorded this at the Kauai Old Time Gathering back in November.

  • Episode 171: Hank Bradley (Looking for Geezers in the Hills and Writing New Tunes)

    December 4th, 2019  |  47 mins 6 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 Hank Bradley! We recorded this at his home in Seattle back in October.

  • Episode 170: Mike Burns (Burns Violins)

    November 27th, 2019  |  53 mins 31 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 Mike Burns! We recorded this at his home in Tacoma back in October.

  • Episode 169: Randi Leach (Likes Spooky Modal Tunes)

    November 20th, 2019  |  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 Randi Leach! We recorded this at her home in Centralia about a month ago.

  • Episode 168: Alex Sturbaum (Transatlantic Trad Music)

    November 13th, 2019  |  43 mins 47 secs
    banjo, button accordion, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, guitar, irish guitar, new folk songs, old time banjo, old time guitar, traditional music, transatlantic

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum; we recorded this at his house in Seattle about a month ago.