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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Episode 22: Alan Kaufman (The Songsmith)
November 30th, 2016 | 44 mins 37 secs
alan kaufman, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, guitar, martha burns, old time music, original songs, songs
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I hope you enjoy Alan Kaufman: Episode 2; the Songsmith. Last week we played his original tunes, this week we’re singing his original songs. Enjoy!
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Episode 21: Alan Kaufman (The Tunesmith)
November 22nd, 2016 | 41 mins 14 secs
alan kaufman, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s and next week’s friend is Alan Kaufman! Also joining us is Don Stratton on guitar, who will be featured in his own episode in the near future.
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Episode 20: Stephen Landis (Fiddle Hermit)
November 16th, 2016 | 1 hr 9 mins
cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, get up in the cool, kentucky fiddling, old time music, stephen landis
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I often look to him when I’m contemplating how to be; which is why I’m releasing his interview now, even though I only recorded it a week or so ago. Also, Stephen introduced me to Old Time, and I’m very grateful to him. Not just for teaching me my first tunes, but for sharing his reverence for the tradition.