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 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.
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Episode 135: Gary Vann (Traditional Music in Brisbane)
March 27th, 2019 | 46 mins 17 secs
australian music, banjo duet, bluegrass fiddle, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time music, two-finger banjo
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Gary Vann. We recorded this last September at his home in Brisbane.
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Episode 134: Hanna Traynham (Old Time Banjo)
March 20th, 2019 | 54 mins 54 secs
clawhammer banjo, mac traynham, old time banjo, old time music, solo banjo music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Hanna Traynham! We recorded this last week at her home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 133: Amy Hakanson (Explains What a Nyckelharpa Is)
March 13th, 2019 | 56 mins 40 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, nyckelharpa, old time banjo, old time music, scandi tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Amy Hakanson! We recorded this about a month ago at my house in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 132: Jesse Partridge (Trad Music and Community in Olympia, WA)
March 6th, 2019 | 45 mins 4 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 Jesse Partridge! We recorded this after the Oly Old Time Festival at Jesse’s house in Olympia, Washington.
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Episode 131: Jimmy Rush (Old Time Flatpicker)
February 27th, 2019 | 42 mins 33 secs
banjo, bluegrass guitar, carter family, clawhammer banjo, flatpicking guitar, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music, songs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jimmy Rush! We recorded this last October on the porch of Hunter and Suzy Owens’s backyard cabin in Sydney, NSW.