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 237: Betse and Clarke (The Music in the Water)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Betse & Clarke! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts …
Episode 236: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time Electric Guitar)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shohei Tsutsumi! We recorded this about a month ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts af…
Episode 235: Cameron Knowler (Old Time Sensitive Flatpicker)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Cameron Knowler! We recorded this a few weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afte…
Episode 234: Sophie Wellington (Loves Her Complex)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sophie Wellington, with special guest guitarist Dan Bui! We recorded this last week over Skype an…
Episode 233: Beverly Street String Band (Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington of the Beverly Street String Band! We recorded…
Episode 232: Eden and Lukas Pool (The Ozark Banjo Co.)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Eden and Lukas Pool! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afte…
Episode 231: Annie Staninec (The Bluegrass vs. Old Time Dichotomy, Improvisation, and Musical Upbringing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Annie Staninec! We recorded this in person, outside my front door, socially distant back in early…
Episode 230: Isa Burke (Fiddle Camp, Murder Ballad Discourse, and Choosing a Music Career)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Isa Burke! We recorded last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
Tunes an…
Episode 229: Alicia Jardine (Clawhammering Swedish Tunes and Queering Traditional Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alicia Jardine! We recorded in December over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
T…
Episode 228: Ken Kolodner (Hammered Dulcimer)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Kolodner! We recorded in December over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
Tun…
Episode 227: Brandon Olszewski (Tradition vs. Evolution and How to Build an Old Time Scene)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Brandon Olszewski! We recorded this in October, 6 feet apart in Melissa Takush’s backyard in Euge…
Episode 226: Melissa Takush (Old Time Music Community Building)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Melissa Takush! We recorded this in October, 6 feet apart in her backyard in Eugene, OR.
Tunes …
Episode 225: Morgan Harris (Old Time Guitar)
*note: Morgan Harris is called by a different name and different pronouns in this episode because they've since changed both.
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and …
Episode 224: Kathleen Parks (Bluegrass, Songwriting, and Altruism)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kathleen Parks! We recorded last month over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
Tu…
Episode 223: Molly McBride (Gatekeeping, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Old Time Erotic Fiction)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Molly McBride! We recorded this in October in Melissa Takush’s backyard in Eugene, Oregon, 6 feet…
Episode 222: Adam Hurt (Gourd Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the final week of Get Up in the Cool month; the month where I release some extra-special interviews I’ve been savi…
Episode 221: Kaia Kater (Non-Consensual Mentors, The Death Knell of the CD Table, and Overeager Allies)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the third week of Get Up in the Cool month; I saved some very special interviews hoping you’ll be moved to support…
Episode 220: Kim Johnson (Playing Banjo with the Great West Virginia Fiddlers)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the second week of Get Up in the Cool month; I’ve been saving some very special interviews in hopes that you’ll be…
Episode 219: Elizabeth LaPrelle (Old Time Ballads)
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…
Episode 218: The Vox Hunters (Filipin{x/a/o} Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi of The Vox Hunters! We recorded this last week over Skype …