Get Up in the Cool
Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends
We found 10 episodes of Get Up in the Cool with the tag “banjo”.
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Episode 42: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time in Japan/Appalachian Studies)
May 17th, 2017 | 1 hr 6 mins
banjo, benton flippen, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, earl white, fiddle, guitar, old time music, shohei tsutsumi
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Shohei Tsutsumi. He recently moved from Osaka, Japan, to Boone, North Carolina for an Appalachian Studies program at Appalachian State. We talk about what led him to do so, as well as the thriving Bluegrass and Old Time scene in Japan.
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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 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 10: Deb Justice (Hammered Dulcimer in Old Time Music)
September 7th, 2016 | 45 mins 49 secs
banjo, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, deb justice, deborah justice, get up in the cool, hammered dulcimer, old time music
Hi friends! I hope you’re all ready to Get Up in the Cool, by which I mean, get transported to a magical fairy land because this week for episode 10 Deb Justice brought her hammered dulcimer.
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Episode 9: Chris Dalnodar (Sarah Armstrong Tunes)
August 31st, 2016 | 50 mins 41 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, derry, fiddle, old time music, pennsatucky, pennsylvania, sarah armstrong
Welcome to episode 9 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt, and Friends. I’m Cameron, and my featured friend this week is fiddler Chris Dalnodar. Seeing as we both live in Philadelphia and his was the first local episode of the show, Chris thought it would be nice to do some Pennsylvania, or more specifically, Pennsatucky tunes.
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Episode 8: Jake Blount (African American Fiddle Music)
August 24th, 2016 | 1 hr 3 mins
banjo, cameron dewhitt, fiddle, jake blount, music, old time, podcast
Welcome to Episode 8 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week I’m proud to present my interview and jam with Ethnomusicologist, Fiddler, Banjo player, and BFF Jake Blount. This week’s theme is African American Fiddling!
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Episode 7: Keith McManus (Honorary Mayor of Clifftop, actual Mayor of Greensboro, PA)
August 17th, 2016 | 52 mins 18 secs
banjo, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, get up in the cool, keith mcmanus, old time, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week, I’m proud to present Episode 7, featuring Keith McManus, honorary mayor of clifftop, actual mayor of Greensboro, Pennsylvania. Also joining us are Jim Meckley and Vince Farsatta from Keith’s band, Stewed Mulligan, on guitar and banjo, respectively, as well as Mike Hall filling in on Bass.
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Episode 5: Bach Bui (Mack Blalock Tunes via James Bryan)
August 3rd, 2016 | 48 mins 3 secs
bach bui, banjo, cameron dewhitt, fiddle, old time, podcast
Hello Friends! This is episode 5 of Get Up in the Cool, wherein one of my favorite people ever, Bach Bui, plays James Bryan playing Mack Blalock; I’ll let Bach explain the details.
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Episode 2: Harry Bolick (Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s)
July 13th, 2016 | 51 mins 8 secs
banjo, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, get up in the cool, harry bolick, mississippi fiddle tunes and songs from the 1930s, old time, old time music
Today we have a very special friend on the show, Harry Bolick. This year Harry released his book of transcriptions called Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, and we’re going to play a few tunes from it.
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Episode 1: Brad Kolodner (New Takes on Old Tunes)
July 5th, 2016 | 1 hr 3 mins
banjo, brad kolodner, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time music, old-time
Part One in the "Baltimore Boys" series, wherein I jam with the friends (and tenants) of Brad Kolodner. We discuss growing up in the household of hammered-dulcimer titan, Ken Kolodner, and play some of their best modern takes on traditional tunes.