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 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.
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Episode 82: Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones (A Trip to Dittyville)
March 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, original songs, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Many of you already know this week’s friends, because they’re some of Old Time’s most active performers, educators and recording artists: Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones.
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Episode 81: Bitter Bloom (Domenica Romagni and Morgan Harris)
March 14th, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
cello, clawhammer banjo, flatpicking, guitar, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are cellist Domenica Romagni and guitarist Morgan Harris from Philadelphia’s own Bitter Bloom.
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Episode 80: Peter Mawanga (Traditional Music from Malawi)
March 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
african music, clawhammer banjo, guitar, malawian music, percussion, sansi, talking drum
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I have a really special friend this week: Peter Mawanga!
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Episode 79: Andy McLeod (A Curated History of Fingerstyle Guitar)
February 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
american primitive, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, cotton-picking, finger-style guitar, ragtime
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Andy McLeod, and he brought with him a wonderful little history lesson on fingerstyle guitar!
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Episode 78: Matt Brown (Fiddler! Educator! Producer!)
February 21st, 2018 | 49 mins 16 secs
banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old town school of folk music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Matt Brown: old time fiddler, educator, and producer!
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Episode 77: Devin Forest-Hines (Easy to Hear, Hard to Play)
February 14th, 2018 | 51 mins 20 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time fiddle
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Devin Forest-Hines, with special guest friend Amelia Baker on guitar.
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Episode 76: Brooks Masten (Banjo Builder)
February 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 22 mins
banjo builder, 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 Brooks Masten. The banjo builder!
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Episode 75: Jess McIntosh (Suzuki/Crooked Tunes/The Gun Control Ads of Yesteryear)
January 31st, 2018 | 43 mins 10 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time fiddle, old time music, traditional songs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jess McInstosh; we recorded this over Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago, the day after I recorded Charlie Walden.
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Episode 74: Ken Perlman (Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)
January 24th, 2018 | 51 mins 24 secs
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, jigs, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Perlman. The Ken Perlman!
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Episode 73: Charlie Walden (Midwest Fiddling, Old Time Radio, and The Mando Mule)
January 17th, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, midwest fiddle tunes, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Charlie Walden. We recorded this at Rupert and Karen’s house in Chicago, so... thanks, new Chicago buddies!
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Episode 72: Scott Mathis and Linda Askew (Music from the Tohono O'odham Nation)
December 20th, 2017 | 46 mins 27 secs
clawhammer banjo, guachi, guitar, mandolin, tohono o'odham nation
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Scott Mathis and Linda Askew, and they brought with them GuAchi music from the Tohono O’odham nation!