Get Up in the Cool - Episodes Tagged with “Ballad Singing”

Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kelsey Sutton! We recorded this in September at the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering.

Tunes in this episode:

Sail Away Ladies (0:55)
Henry King’s Reel (Trevor Stuart original) (13:43)
My Dearest Dear (29:44)
No Ash Will Burn (Walt Aldridge original) (44:30)
Winderslide (52:43)
BONUS TRACK: Western Country

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Episode 442: Heather Blackbird (Unaccompanied Ballad Singing)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Heather Blackbird! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Pretty Saro
Moonshiner
West Virginia Mine Disaster
Amazing Grace
How can I Keep from Singing
Bonus Track: Locks and Bolts

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Episode 395: Kaden Hurst (Mandolin's Place in Old Time, Gender in Ballads, and Making a Nice Sound)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kaden Hurst. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

Tune in this episode:

Tater Roll (1:05)
Five Miles from Town (18:36)
Cold Mountains (34:58)
Rye Straw (48:43)
Poor Man’s Song (56:35)
Bonus Track: High Up on Tug

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Episode 344: Flynn Cohen (Edden Hammons, Irish Music, and Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Flynn Cohen. We recorded this last month in my home in Portland, Oregon.

Tune in this episode:

Shetland Jumper / Andrea Corr’s Jig (1:20)
Fine Times at Our House / The Falls of Richmond (15:28)
Young Emily (33:03)
The Girl Who Broke My Heart / Murphy’s Hornpipe / Tuamgraney Castle (37:57)
Neo-Gothic Revival Breakdown (45:27)
Bonus track: Fletch Taylor / The Cleveland Boy

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The CBA Summer Music Camp takes place June 11th through the 14th at the beautiful Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California. Daily instrument classes, workshops, jams, square dances, and faculty concerts are all attended outdoors among the pine trees. This year’s world class faculty include: Jake Blount, Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms, John Reischman, Mike Witcher, and the band Mile Twelve, among others.

You can learn more about the camp and register online at cbacamp.com

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Episode 299: Kelsey Nelsen (Square Dance Calling, Crankies, and Ballads)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kelsey Nelsen. We recorded this a couple weeks ago in her home outside of Port Townsend, Washington when she hosted Tall Poppy String Band during our tour.

Squares, Tunes, and songs in this episode:

Dip and Dive (to Chattanooga) (0:34)
Uptown Downtown (to Salt River) (19:20)
Undone in Sorrow (31:41)
Who Killed Cock Robin (42:39)
Ouvre La Porte (54:10)
Bonus track: Three Little Babes

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Episode 219: Elizabeth LaPrelle (Old Time Ballads)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the first week Get Up in the Cool month; I’ve been saving up some very exciting interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. Which is why this week’s friend is ballad singer and banjoist Elizabeth LaPrelle. We recorded this last month over skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

Songs in this episode:
The Wagoner’s Lad
The Hills of Mexico
The House Carpenter
Love Has Brought Me To Despair
Low Low
Bonus track: Cold Mountains

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