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 103: Nate Paine (The Fiddling of Jon Bekoff)
August 15th, 2018 | 57 mins 19 secs
banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, old time fiddling, vermont fiddling, western mass fiddle, western mass old time
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nate Paine, the closest living source we have of Jon Bekoff’s tunes and fiddling.
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Episode 102: Kristina Gaddy and Pete Ross (History of the Banjo)
August 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 17 mins
banjo, banjo builder, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time fiddle, old time guitar
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Kristina Gaddy and Pete Ross. We recorded at their home about a month ago when I was in town to play the Baltimore Square Dance.
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Episode 101: Brad Kolodner (Old Time in the Community)
August 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins
banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, old time, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brad Kolodner! Brad was my guest for episode one, and this is episode 101, and I feel very sentimental about that.
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Episode 100: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 100! Ft. Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery)
July 25th, 2018 | 1 hr 22 mins
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old-time
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is episode 100, and we have two special guest hosts today: Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery, and I’m the guest.
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Episode 99: Corey Husic (Gorillas, Birding, and Clyde Davenport Tunes)
July 18th, 2018 | 44 mins 38 secs
banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Corey Husic! As the title would suggest, the conversation goes in some interesting places.
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Episode 98: Leigh Rudner (Cello in Old Time Music)
July 11th, 2018 | 43 mins 38 secs
cello, clawhammer banjo, old time, 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 old time cellist, Leigh Rudnor!
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Episode 97: Charlie Walden (Possum's Big Fiddle Show)
July 4th, 2018 | 47 mins 52 secs
banjo, big possum's fiddle show, fiddle, midwest fiddle tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s episode is a crossover, shared universe, trad music spectacular with Charlie Walden’s new podcast, Possum’s Big Fiddle Show!
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Episode 96: Ellen and Pete Vigour (Uncle Henry's Favorites)
June 27th, 2018 | 44 mins 27 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, 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 Ellen and Pete Vigour from Uncle Henry’s Favorites!
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Episode 95: Ida Mae Specker (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)
June 21st, 2018 | 49 mins 5 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, 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 Ida Mae Specker! We recorded this in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion a few weeks ago.
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Episode 94: Jason Cade (Half a Hog-Eyed Man)
June 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time fiddle, 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 Jason Cade, of Hog-Eyed Man.
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Episode 93: Dara Weiss (Old Time Songs)
June 6th, 2018 | 52 mins 49 secs
bluegrass songs, clawhammer banjo, guitar, old time, old time guitar, songs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dara Weiss, from All Day Breakfast Stringband! We recorded at Black Creek about a week and a half ago.
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Episode 92: Joe Troop (Is Friends with a Smelly Old Bear)
May 30th, 2018 | 59 mins 40 secs
bluegrass, clawhammer banjo, 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 Troop from Che Apalache, your favorite latingrass band!
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Episode 91: Riley Calcagno (Wants to Hang Out Backstage)
May 23rd, 2018 | 38 mins 33 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Riley Calcagno of The Onlies, and more recently of Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno.
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Episode 90: Max Evans (Old Time in Canada, Formational Tunes, and Trendy Vegetables)
May 16th, 2018 | 45 mins 28 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time fiddle, old time music, podcast
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Max Evans, fiddler for All Day Breakfast Stringband. We recorded this in Vancouver, BC, the morning after the first night of EVOS, the East Vancouver Old Time Social.
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Episode 89: Molly Tenenbaum (Mystery, Joy, and Old Time Banjo)
May 9th, 2018 | 47 mins 7 secs
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is old time banjoist and poet Molly Tenenbaum.
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Episode 88: Armin Barnett (Old Time Sources)
May 2nd, 2018 | 50 mins 17 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Armin Barnett, another new friend from Seattle!