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 38: Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee (Old Time Family Band)

    April 19th, 2017  |  1 hr 11 secs
    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 Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee.

  • Episode 37: Sophie Enloe (Portland Old Time Part II)

    April 12th, 2017  |  58 mins 11 secs
    benton flippen, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, melvin wine, old time music, sophie enloe

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Sophie Enloe; we recorded this at her house in Portland when I was home for Christmas.

  • Episode 36: Gabrielle Macrae (Old Time in Portland, OR)

    April 5th, 2017  |  46 mins 26 secs
    clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, gabrielle macrae, old time music, the horsenecks, the macrae sisters

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gabrielle Macrae, of The Horsenecks and The Macrae Sisters!

  • Episode 35: Dotty Moore (Suzuki Refugee)

    March 29th, 2017  |  54 mins 33 secs
    clawhammer banjo, dotty moore, fiddle, guitar, jordan rast, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Dotty Moore on fiddle and special guest accompanist, Jordan Rast, on guitar. 

  • Episode 34: Chris Dalnodar (Ragtime Apologist)

    March 15th, 2017  |  1 hr 1 min
    banjo, cameron dewhitt, chris dalnodar, clawhammer, fiddle, guitar, piano, ragtime

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Chris Dalnodar, and he brought with him a very serious topic: people should learn to play rags at old time jams and not be afraid of flat keys. And, you guys, I think he makes a pretty compelling case. 

  • Episode 33: Jordan Rast (Growing Up Old Time)

    March 8th, 2017  |  1 hr 2 mins
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, jordan rast, 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 fiddler and songwriter Jordan Rast.

  • Episode 32: Carl Baron (The Fiddlers of Central West Virginia)

    March 1st, 2017  |  1 hr 2 mins
    banjo duet, cameron dewhitt, carl baron, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s episode is very special to me; it’s my interview and jam with Carl Baron.

  • Episode 31: Deb Shebish (Joe Dawson's Fiddle Tunes)

    February 22nd, 2017  |  59 mins 36 secs
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, deb shebish, fiddle, joe dawson, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Deb Shebish, and she’s brought with her a handful of tunes and sweet memories of the late fiddler from Bloomington, Indiana, Joe Dawson.

  • Episode 30: Don Stratton (Original Northern Flavor)

    February 15th, 2017  |  44 mins 9 secs
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, don stratton, fiddle, old time music, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Don Stratton, and he has some original old time tunes to share with a northern flavor.

  • Episode 29: ‎Ludvig Drevfjäll (Old Time Infatuation)

    February 8th, 2017  |  47 mins 34 secs
    banjo duet, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, ‎ludvig drevfjäll

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is the award winning clawhammer banjoist, old time fanatic, and fiddler, ‎Ludvig Drevfjäll.

  • Episode 28: Trip Henderson (Old Time Harmonica)

    February 1st, 2017  |  56 mins 55 secs
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, harmonica, old time music, trip henderson

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This episode is a great departure from the fiddling you can expect to hear on this program, because my guest is Trip Henderson and his bag of harmonicas.

  • Episode 27: David Deacon (Kentucky Fiddle Tunes)

    January 25th, 2017  |  53 mins 52 secs
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, david deacon, fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is David Deacon, and he curated a nice handful of Kentucky fiddle tunes for us to play! We recorded this at the Brandywine Revival Festival last summer, hidden away up the path near a still pond with a lot of mosquitoes.

  • Episode 26: Bertram Levy (Pioneer of Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)

    January 18th, 2017  |  45 mins 58 secs
    banjo, bertram levy, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer, 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 one of the first people I met at my first ever Clifftop, melodic clawhammer banjoist Bertram Levy.

  • Episode 25: Andrew Finn Magill (Live at The Random Tea Room)

    January 11th, 2017  |  50 mins 52 secs
    andrew finn magill, brazilian, cameron dewhitt, choro, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, finn magill, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is the virtuosic and eclectic fiddler, Andrew Finn Magill. We recorded this interview and jam in front a live audience at The Random Tea Room in Philadelphia back in November.

  • Episode 24: Gordon Arnold (Old Time Cello)

    December 14th, 2016  |  55 mins 32 secs
    cameron dewhitt, cello, clawhammer banjo, gordon arnold, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week I’m sharing my jam and chat with Old Time cellist, Gordon Arnold. Gordon is super adventurous, which you know I love, but he’s also very rooted in the tradition. 

  • Episode 23: Rachel Eddy (Inclusivity and Jam Etiquette)

    December 7th, 2016  |  1 hr 17 mins
    cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music, rachel eddy

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rachel Eddy! She wanted to talk about inclusivity and etiquette in Old Time sessions, which we sometimes touch on in this show, but Rachel approaches the topic with a lot more nuance and intention, and I really appreciated what she had to say!