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 326: Maya Whitmont and Melissa Mark (Old Time in the Pacific Northwest)

    November 23rd, 2022  |  54 mins 22 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, 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 Maya Whitmont and Melissa Mark. We recorded this last weekend at their home in Seattle.

  • Episode 325: Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer (Social Singing and Centering Youth in Traditional Music)

    November 16th, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins
    a'capella, social singing, traditional music, unaccompanied singing

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer. We recorded this two weekends ago at Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend in Rhododendron, OR.

  • Episode 324: Mary Garvey (Writing Regional Traditional Songs)

    November 9th, 2022  |  47 mins 29 secs
    ballad, original songs, pacific northwest, social singing, traditional song

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mary Garvey. We recorded this last weekend at Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend in Rhododendron, OR.

  • Episode 323: Jake Loew (MIDI Fiddle Tunes, Old Time Trolling, and Missouri Repertoire)

    November 2nd, 2022  |  53 mins 17 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, midi fiddle tunes, missouri tunes, novelty music, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jake Loew. We recorded this in August at his home in Denver, Colorado.

  • Episode 322: Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose (Banjo Identity Crises and Bonus Notes)

    October 26th, 2022  |  53 mins 20 secs
    banjo, banjo duet, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, original songs, three-finger banjo

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose. We recorded this in August at Swallow Hill in Denver, Colorado.

  • Episode 321: Frank Evans (Clawhammer, Clifftop, and Nashville)

    October 19th, 2022  |  43 mins 39 secs
    banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Frank Evans. We recorded this in August at Clifftop in West Virginia.

  • Episode 320: Megan Lynch Chowning (Contest Fiddling, the Pleasure of Teaching, and The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project)

    October 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 23 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, john hartford, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Megan Lynch Chowning. We recorded this in August at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson in Nashville, TN.

  • Episode 319: Stillhouse Junkies (Off the Clock Music)

    October 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 15 mins
    banjo, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, octave mandolin, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs, twin fiddling

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Stillhouse Junkies. We recorded this in September at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 318: Bill Meyer (Old Time in the 70's and 80's)

    September 28th, 2022  |  43 mins 40 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Bill Meyer. We recorded this last week at his home in Seattle.

  • Episode 317: Daniel Ullom (Old Time Mandolin, Guitar Dads, and Ella Haley)

    September 21st, 2022  |  48 mins 39 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, old time mandolin, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Daniel Ullom. We recorded this last week at his home in Puyallup, Washington.

  • Episode 316: Josie Toney (Contra Dance Band Names, Paying Kids for Music, and Whether or Not Fiddling Is Cool)

    September 14th, 2022  |  44 mins 5 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flat pick guitar, flatpicking, old time banjo, old time fiddle, 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 Josie Toney! We recorded this at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson in Nashville in August.

  • Episode 315: Joe Overton (Punk to Old Time Pipeline and Southern Identity)

    September 7th, 2022  |  48 mins 29 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time 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 Overton! We recorded this at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson in Nashville in August.

  • Episode 314: Hemlock & Hickory (Dakota Karper and Brendan Hearn)

    September 1st, 2022  |  51 mins 19 secs
    5-string banjo, banjo, cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time cello, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Dakota Karper and Brendan Hearn of Hemlock & Hickory! We recorded this at Clifftop back in August.

  • Episode 313: Janie Rothfield (Clifftop '22)

    August 24th, 2022  |  43 mins 37 secs
    banjo, banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time 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 Janie Rothfield! We recorded this at Clifftop a few weeks ago.

  • Episode 312: Jerron Paxton (Parable Telling, Palatable Truth, and Raggin' It)

    August 17th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min
    3-finger banjo, banjo, bones, classic banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, ragtime, ragtime banjo, rhythm bones

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jerron Paxton! We recorded this back in July in Port Townsend, Washington.

  • Episode 311: Cary Lung (Old Time Mandolin, Counterpoint, and Kenny Hall)

    August 10th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins
    backup guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fiddle tunes, kenny hall, mandolin, old time guitar, old time mandolin, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Cary Lung, with special guests Maya Whitmont and Clyde Curley! We recorded this back in July in Port Townsend, Washington.