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 151: Micah Ling (Old Time Cello, Folklore, and Festival Dress)
July 17th, 2019 | 55 mins 30 secs
banjo, banjo duet, cello, clawhammer, 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 in June at the Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp in Rodney, Michigan.
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Episode 150: Nic Gareiss (Asking Questions Through the Body)
July 10th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
clawhammer banjo, clogging, dorrigochallenge, flatfoot, flatfooting, irish dance, jigs, old time music, percussive dance
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nic Gareiss! We recorded this last week at the Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp in Rodney, Michigan.
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Episode 149: Ruby John (The Fiddle Is Good Medicine)
July 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 43 secs
bb tunes, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, metis, metis fiddle, native fiddling, old time fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ruby John! We recorded this last week at the Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp in Rodney, Michigan!
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Episode 148: Bill Harlow (All the Kids Are Playing Old Time)
June 26th, 2019 | 33 mins 50 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo. old time banjo, fiddle, 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 Bill Harlow! We recorded this about a week and a half ago at the Fiddler’s Festival in Weiser, Idaho.
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Episode 147: Judy Lungren (The Duchess of Stickerville)
June 19th, 2019 | 40 mins 11 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo. old time banjo, fiddle, 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 Judy Lungren, the Duchess of Stickerville! We recorded this a few days ago at the Fiddler’s Festival in Weiser, Idaho.
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Episode 146: Collin Stackhouse (Learned to Fiddle in Alaska and Play the Banjo in Antarctica)
June 12th, 2019 | 43 mins 46 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs, scandinavian fiddle, songwriting, swedish fiddle
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 couple weeks ago at my house in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 145: Jake Blount (Facebook Live AMA)
June 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 33 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo. old time banjo, fiddle, 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 Jake Blount! Back in mid-April, we did three facebook live episodes to promote our northeast tour, so I put them all together with improved audio for anyone who missed the live broadcast. And because there are already hours of me interviewing Jake available on this show, he agreed to do the show in the AMA, or “ask me anything” format. So we’re answering listener submitted questions!
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Episode 144: Lewis & Spence (Aren't Bored Yet)
May 29th, 2019 | 53 mins 2 secs
banjo, carter family, 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 friends are Hannah Lewis and Micah Spence! We recorded this a few weeks ago in Eugene during the Willamette Valley Old Time Social in Brandon Olszewski’s backyard music room! Thanks for hosting us, Brandon!
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Episode 143: Dan Bui (Mandolin, Bluegrass, and How to Not Burnout as a Professional Musician)
May 22nd, 2019 | 54 mins 41 secs
banjo, bluegrass, bluegrass mandolin, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, frailing, mandolin, old time banjo, old time mandolin, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dan Bui! We recorded this a month ago in Boston while I was on tour with Jake Blount.
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Episode 142: Carol Skarstad (Old Time Cello)
May 15th, 2019 | 40 mins 44 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 Carol Skarstad! We recorded this at the Willamette Valley Old Time Social a couple weeks ago in Eugene, Oregon.
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Episode 141: The Vox Hunters (Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi)
May 8th, 2019 | 59 mins 17 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, concertina, fiddle, harmonica, old time fiddle, old time harmonica, 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 The Vox Hunters: Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi!
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Episode 140: Julay Brooks (Old Time Backup Guitar)
May 1st, 2019 | 1 hr 16 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 Julay Brooks! We recorded this a few weeks ago at my house in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 139: Joe McHugh (Rosin the Bow)
April 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo. old time banjo, fiddle, 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 McHugh, the host of Rosin the Bow, a podcast about the violin family! We recorded this in February at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, Washington.
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Episode 138: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (Hands on Both Sides)
April 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 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 a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 137: Harry Bolick (The Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes)
April 10th, 2019 | 52 mins 51 secs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Harry Bolick! We recorded this last June at the Brandywine Revival.
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Episode 136: Linnea Spitzer (A Long Circuitous Route)
April 3rd, 2019 | 54 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 Linnea Spitzer. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, Oregon.