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 411: Earl White (Green Grass Cloggers and Spreading the Old Time Gospel)

    July 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 13 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 Earl White. We recorded this on Saturday in Port Townsend, Washington.

  • Episode 410: Collin Stackhouse (Friend with a Podcast Tax and Health Care for All Oregon)

    July 3rd, 2024  |  43 mins 56 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs

    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 on Monday at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 409: Call Up in the Cool No. 4

    June 26th, 2024  |  58 mins 24 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, 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 friends are a handful of listeners who called in with a question and a tune or song request because this is another Call Up in the Cool episode.

  • Episode 408: Northern Resonance (with Tall Poppy String Band)

    June 19th, 2024  |  54 mins 9 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, hardanger fiddle, nyckelharpa, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music, viola d'amore

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Anna Ekborg Hans-ers, Jerker Hans-ers, and Petrus Dillner of Northern Resonance, with special guests George Jackson and Morgan Harris! We recorded this in Viroqua, Wisconsin towards the end of our tour back in April.

  • Episode 407: Steve Rosen (Banjo Whimsy)

    June 12th, 2024  |  46 mins 17 secs
    clawhammer banjo, old time, 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 Steve Rosen. We recorded this at The Old Town School of Folk Music.

  • Episode 406: Smack Young Walser (Sweet-tooth Fiddling)

    June 5th, 2024  |  48 mins 22 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 Smack Young Walser. We recorded this at his home in Minneapolis.

  • Episode 405: Bobcat Opossum (Tune Scavengers)

    May 29th, 2024  |  56 mins 19 secs
    5-string banjo, banjo, cello, celtic music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, irish music, old time banjo, old time cello, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes, polkas

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ellen Coplin and Sean Michael Hoffman of Bobcat Opossum. We recorded this at their home in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  • Episode 404: Calvin Woodring (Old Time Harmonica)

    May 22nd, 2024  |  45 mins 13 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, harmonica, old time banjo, old time harmonica, old time music, old-time

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Calvin Woodring. We recorded this at his home in Madison, Wisconsin.

  • Episode 403: Lillian Werbin (Elderly Instruments)

    May 15th, 2024  |  51 mins 11 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, country music, old time banjo, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Lillian Werbin. We recorded this at Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI.

  • Episode 402: Sweet Milk and Peaches (Midwestern Schottisches, Polkas, and Jigs)

    May 8th, 2024  |  50 mins 26 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, jig, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, polka, schottische

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Liz Voz and Jesse Downs of Sweet Milk and Peaches. We recorded this last week in Viroqua, Wisconsin.

  • Episode 401: Keala Venema (Old Time Fiddle, Shamisen, and Chatting with Instruments)

    May 1st, 2024  |  49 mins 17 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, shamisen

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Keala Venema. We recorded this last week in Lansing, Michigan.

  • Episode 400: Emily Mann (Relaxed, Notey, G Tunes and Nashville Spring Distractions)

    April 24th, 2024  |  55 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 Emily Mann. We recorded this yesterday in Nashville at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson.

  • Episode 399: Ian Desiderio (Old Time Jam Democracy)

    April 17th, 2024  |  57 mins 49 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ian Desiderio. We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Tomorrow's episode will be delayed until midday; sorry!

    April 16th, 2024  |  26 secs

    Tomorrow's episode will be delayed until midday; sorry!

  • Episode 398: Noa (Bowing Bass and Physical Melodies)

    April 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins
    banjo, bass, bowed bass, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle tunes, old time bass, old time music, upright bass

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Noa. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 397: The Carolina Rose (Caroline Oakley and Rose Minkler)

    April 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, 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 Caroline Oakley and Rose Minkler of The Carolina Rose. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.