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 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!
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Episode 87: Emily Keene (The Golden Age of Traditional Music in Seattle/Old Time Harmonica)
April 25th, 2018 | 50 mins 7 secs
clawhammer banjo, harmonica, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Emily Keene. As we started warming up, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this would be a harmonica episode!
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Episode 86: Jenny Monfore (Will Homestead for Tunes)
April 18th, 2018 | 57 mins 28 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, music, 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 Jenny Monfore. We recorded this at her place in Seattle, a few days before the East Vancouver Old Time Social.
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Episode 85: Squirrel Butter (Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck)
April 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck of Squirrel Butter! We recorded this at Scott Killops’ house during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.
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Episode 84: Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers (Old Time Music of Southwestern Pennsylvania)
April 4th, 2018 | 58 mins 6 secs
#fifelife, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fife, guitar, harmonica, old time fiddle, southwestern pennsylvania, sw pa
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers, and they brought some traditional music from Southwestern Pennsylvania to share!
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Episode 83: Lyle de Vitry (Old Time Obsession/Excavating Tombs)
March 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
clawhammer banjo, 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 my good buddy Lyle de Vitry, and I’m excited for you to meet him if you haven’t already, because his Old Time music story is really sweet, and his fiddling is beautiful.