Get Up in the Cool
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 481
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Episode 257: Em Hammond (Old Time Banjo, Bass, and Flatfooting)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Em Hammond (with special guest musician Rachel Eddy!). We recorded this in their home in the DC a…
Episode 256: Nicole Ball and Max Rainwater (Falling on the Melody, One Way or Another)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Nicole Ball and Max Rainwater. We recorded this in my front yard a few weeks ago.
Tunes and s…
Episode 255: Dear Crow (Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Dear Crow, Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay! We recorded this back in June in Olympia, Was…
Episode 254: McKain Lakey (Polyphony, Bad-Ass Ladies, and a Full-Circle Hodge-Podge of Joy)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is McKain Lakey! We recorded this on Monday in my front yard.
Tunes and songs in this episode:
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Episode 253: Palmer T. Lee (Old Time Melodic Three-Finger Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Palmer T. Lee! We recorded this a few weeks ago in Olympia, Washington.
Tunes and songs in this …
Episode 252: Jesse Partridge (Trad Music Barriers, David Kaynor, and Queer Optics)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Jesse Partridge! We recorded this a week and a half ago in Olympia, Washington.
Tunes and songs …
Episode 251: String and Shadow (Puppets, Masks, Busking, and Old Time)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Emily McHugh and Donald Palardy of String & Shadow! We recorded this on Sunday in Olympia, Wash…
Episode 250: Judy Hyman (The Horseflies, Ithaca Style Old Time, and Inevitable Change in Tradition)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Judy Hyman and special guest accompanist Jeff Claus! We recorded this about a week and a half a…
Episode 249: The Wules (Christina Osborn and Michael Cullinan)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are The Wules, Christina Osborn and Michael Cullinan! I recorded them yesterday in my front yard, n…
Episode 248: E.V. Sheldon (Senseless, Post-Rational Love)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is E.V. Sheldon! I recorded them a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts after…
Episode 247: Ethan Hawkins (Old Time Guitar and Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ethan Hawkins! We recorded this a couple weeks over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwa…
Episode 246: Devon Flaherty (Collecting 78's and Banjo Self-Actualization)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devon Flaherty! We recorded this a couple weeks over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterw…
Episode 245: Casey Murray & Molly Tucker (Writing Original Tunes and Contra Dance Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Casey Murray & Molly Tucker! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical pa…
Episode 244: Gaye Harrison (Selections from Dear Old Illinois)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gaye Harrison! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 243: Sheila & Jesse (Twin Fiddling)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sheila & Jesse! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterward…
Episode 242: Kalia Yeagle (Professing Old Time Music, Asking Better Questions, and the Alaska Fiddle Sound)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kalia Yeagle! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 241: Seth Shumate (Old Time Harmonica)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Seth Shumate! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 240: Carling Berkhout (Paths to Old Time, Writing Original Tunes, and Musical Identity)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carling Berkhout! We recorded this two weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts after…
Episode 239: Sarah Kate Morgan (Mountain Dulcimer)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sarah Kate Morgan! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts…
Episode 238: Dante and Eros Faulk (Old Time, Celtic, and Original Cello and Fiddle Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Dante & Eros Faulk! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical pa…