web02.fireside.fm Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:34:21 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Get Up in the Cool - Episodes Tagged with “Traditional Music” https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/tags/traditional%20music Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 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. en-us episodic Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends Cameron DeWhitt 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. no old time music, old time, old-time, old-time music, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, banjo, old time banjo, interview, fiddle, old time fiddle, old-time fiddle, bluegrass Cameron DeWhitt camerondewhitt@gmail.com Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/485 823da503-ea7b-4a6f-a254-d2064d8124d8 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0800 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA. 56:46 yes Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: * James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50) * Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55) * Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28) * Christmas Eve (44:42) * Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27) * BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake Visit Dear Crow’s website (https://dearcrowmusic.com/) and follow them on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dearcrowmusic/?hl=en) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/) follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sweetenthethird/?hl=en) old time, Irish music, old time music, clawhammer banjo, banjo, Christmas music, traditional music, fiddle, old time fiddle, guitar, old time guitar, Irish fiddle tunes Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

  • James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50)
  • Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55)
  • Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28)
  • Christmas Eve (44:42)
  • Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27)
  • BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake

Visit Dear Crow’s website
and follow them on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

  • James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50)
  • Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55)
  • Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28)
  • Christmas Eve (44:42)
  • Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27)
  • BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake

Visit Dear Crow’s website
and follow them on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/446 a31f7d11-447e-4ba9-983a-31aa9551c4ea Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR. 1:14:35 yes Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: * Happy Hollow (1:09) * Wind and Rain (19:12) * Are You Washed (42:38) * A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40) * Leela (1:09:50) * Bonus Track: Lost Girl Visit Carolyn Kendrick’s website (https://www.carolynkendrick.com/) Buy Carolyn’s album and zine on Bandcamp (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/music) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/) old time, old time music, old time songs, traditional songs, traditional music, songwriting, fiddle, old time fiddle, fiddle tunes, clawhammer banjo, banjo, old time banjo Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

  • Happy Hollow (1:09)
  • Wind and Rain (19:12)
  • Are You Washed (42:38)
  • A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40)
  • Leela (1:09:50)
  • Bonus Track: Lost Girl

Visit Carolyn Kendrick’s website
Buy Carolyn’s album and zine on Bandcamp

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

  • Happy Hollow (1:09)
  • Wind and Rain (19:12)
  • Are You Washed (42:38)
  • A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40)
  • Leela (1:09:50)
  • Bonus Track: Lost Girl

Visit Carolyn Kendrick’s website
Buy Carolyn’s album and zine on Bandcamp

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Episode 325: Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer (Social Singing and Centering Youth in Traditional Music) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/325 8343a3f3-f901-456b-9841-10ee5801875c Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0800 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt 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. 1:02:58 yes 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. Songs in this episode: * Cape Cod Girls (1:20) * Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron (18:44) * Bright Morning Stars (29:38) * Rattlin’ Bog (52:16) * Three Jolly Fisherman (58:17) * Bonus track: Pleasant and Delightful Registration opens December 1st for Youth Trad Song Weekend: https://www.youthtradsong.org/ Raise the Rafters: https://rtrsong.org/ Traditional Music Today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tradmusictoday Buy Nicole’s records: https://nicolesinger.com/ Love old-time music, dance, art, & craft? Immerse yourself in Appalachian culture at the beautiful John C. Campbell Folk School. Located in Western North Carolina, we offer weeklong & weekend classes in old-time music, instrument building, woodworking, fiber arts, blacksmithing, cooking, gardening, pottery and much much more! www.folkschool.ORG to see our full catalog of classes, or 1-800-FOLK-SCH to register. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/ Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series! Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/ Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/ social singing, unaccompanied singing, a'capella, traditional music 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.

Songs in this episode:

  • Cape Cod Girls (1:20)
  • Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron (18:44)
  • Bright Morning Stars (29:38)
  • Rattlin’ Bog (52:16)
  • Three Jolly Fisherman (58:17)
  • Bonus track: Pleasant and Delightful

Registration opens December 1st for Youth Trad Song Weekend: https://www.youthtradsong.org/

Raise the Rafters: https://rtrsong.org/
Traditional Music Today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tradmusictoday
Buy Nicole’s records: https://nicolesinger.com/

Love old-time music, dance, art, & craft? Immerse yourself in Appalachian culture at the beautiful John C. Campbell Folk School. Located in Western North Carolina, we offer weeklong & weekend classes in old-time music, instrument building, woodworking, fiber arts, blacksmithing, cooking, gardening, pottery and much much more! www.folkschool.ORG to see our full catalog of classes, or 1-800-FOLK-SCH to register.

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/
Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> 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.

Songs in this episode:

  • Cape Cod Girls (1:20)
  • Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron (18:44)
  • Bright Morning Stars (29:38)
  • Rattlin’ Bog (52:16)
  • Three Jolly Fisherman (58:17)
  • Bonus track: Pleasant and Delightful

Registration opens December 1st for Youth Trad Song Weekend: https://www.youthtradsong.org/

Raise the Rafters: https://rtrsong.org/
Traditional Music Today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tradmusictoday
Buy Nicole’s records: https://nicolesinger.com/

Love old-time music, dance, art, & craft? Immerse yourself in Appalachian culture at the beautiful John C. Campbell Folk School. Located in Western North Carolina, we offer weeklong & weekend classes in old-time music, instrument building, woodworking, fiber arts, blacksmithing, cooking, gardening, pottery and much much more! www.folkschool.ORG to see our full catalog of classes, or 1-800-FOLK-SCH to register.

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/
Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Episode 211: Leela Grace (Family Bands, Songwriting, and Undoing Bad Music Education) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/211 3d639c98-dfab-48ae-b125-ff61ef15893d Tue, 08 Sep 2020 23:15:00 -0700 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Leela Grace! We recorded this last week in person in her backyard, a little more than six feet apart. 1:05:41 yes Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Leela Grace! We recorded this last week in person in her backyard, a little more than six feet apart. Songs in this episode: Squirrel Hunters Water, Wood, and Wind Queen of the Earth, Child of the Stars Rock the Cradle Joe Sundown Bonus track: Needlecase Leela’s website: http://leelagracemusic.com Rose City Folk School website: http://rosecityfolkschool.com Her email address: leelagracemusic@gmail.com The Leela and Ellie Grace website where CDs are available: http://leelaandelliegrace.com Like and follow Leela on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leelagracemusic/ Rose City Folk School FB page: https://www.facebook.com/rosecityfolkschoolpdx Rose City Folk School Insta: @rosecityfolkschoolpdx Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Get a Get Up in the Cool t shirt and phone case! https://teespring.com/new-get-up-in-the-cool-swag Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series! Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/ banjo, clawhammer banjo, minstrel banjo, old time music, original music, original songs, traditional music, acapella Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Leela Grace! We recorded this last week in person in her backyard, a little more than six feet apart.

Songs in this episode:
Squirrel Hunters
Water, Wood, and Wind
Queen of the Earth, Child of the Stars
Rock the Cradle Joe
Sundown
Bonus track: Needlecase

Leela’s website: http://leelagracemusic.com
Rose City Folk School website: http://rosecityfolkschool.com
Her email address: leelagracemusic@gmail.com
The Leela and Ellie Grace website where CDs are available: http://leelaandelliegrace.com

Like and follow Leela on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leelagracemusic/

Rose City Folk School FB page: https://www.facebook.com/rosecityfolkschoolpdx
Rose City Folk School Insta: @rosecityfolkschoolpdx

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Get a Get Up in the Cool t shirt and phone case! https://teespring.com/new-get-up-in-the-cool-swag
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Leela Grace! We recorded this last week in person in her backyard, a little more than six feet apart.

Songs in this episode:
Squirrel Hunters
Water, Wood, and Wind
Queen of the Earth, Child of the Stars
Rock the Cradle Joe
Sundown
Bonus track: Needlecase

Leela’s website: http://leelagracemusic.com
Rose City Folk School website: http://rosecityfolkschool.com
Her email address: leelagracemusic@gmail.com
The Leela and Ellie Grace website where CDs are available: http://leelaandelliegrace.com

Like and follow Leela on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leelagracemusic/

Rose City Folk School FB page: https://www.facebook.com/rosecityfolkschoolpdx
Rose City Folk School Insta: @rosecityfolkschoolpdx

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Get a Get Up in the Cool t shirt and phone case! https://teespring.com/new-get-up-in-the-cool-swag
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Episode 168: Alex Sturbaum (Transatlantic Trad Music) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/168 fb520af4-0f7e-4834-b003-49b0af993cde Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum; we recorded this at his house in Seattle about a month ago. 43:47 no Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum; we recorded this at his house in Seattle about a month ago. Tunes in this episode: Duck River Pulling Broom (an Alex Sturbaum original) Cold Frosty Morning Sweet Mary Starbuck (an Alex Sturbaum original) Frances Lee Bonus track: Valley Forge Alex Sturbaum’s website: https://www.alexsturbaum.com/ Alex Sturbaum’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexsturbaummusic/ The Vashon Sessions’ website: https://www.thevashonsessions.com/ Countercurrent’s website: https://countercurrentmusic.com/ Countercurrent’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countercurrentband/ Don't forget to rate and review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts! Listen to Cameron's other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/ guitar, old time guitar, Irish guitar, transatlantic, traditional music, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer, banjo, old time banjo, button accordion, new folk songs Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum; we recorded this at his house in Seattle about a month ago.

Tunes in this episode:
Duck River
Pulling Broom (an Alex Sturbaum original)
Cold Frosty Morning
Sweet Mary Starbuck (an Alex Sturbaum original)
Frances Lee
Bonus track: Valley Forge

Alex Sturbaum’s website: https://www.alexsturbaum.com/
Alex Sturbaum’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexsturbaummusic/
The Vashon Sessions’ website: https://www.thevashonsessions.com/
Countercurrent’s website: https://countercurrentmusic.com/
Countercurrent’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countercurrentband/

Don't forget to rate and review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts!
Listen to Cameron's other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum; we recorded this at his house in Seattle about a month ago.

Tunes in this episode:
Duck River
Pulling Broom (an Alex Sturbaum original)
Cold Frosty Morning
Sweet Mary Starbuck (an Alex Sturbaum original)
Frances Lee
Bonus track: Valley Forge

Alex Sturbaum’s website: https://www.alexsturbaum.com/
Alex Sturbaum’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexsturbaummusic/
The Vashon Sessions’ website: https://www.thevashonsessions.com/
Countercurrent’s website: https://countercurrentmusic.com/
Countercurrent’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/countercurrentband/

Don't forget to rate and review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts!
Listen to Cameron's other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/

Support Get Up in the Cool

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