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 217: Linda Danielson (Oregon Old-Time Fiddling)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Linda Danielson! We recorded this last weekend in person, socially distanced, in her carport in E…
Episode 216: Karen Celia Heil (Dork Demographics, Visiting the Geezers, and The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Karen Celia Heil! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterward…
Episode 215: Alex Sturbaum (Newfoundland tunes, Loomings, and Mitch McConnell)
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 a couple days ago in front of my house, over 6 feet apart.
Tune…
Episode 214: Rachel Dunaway (Old Time Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rachel Dunaway! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts af…
Episode 213: Ian Boone (Has to Be the Only Person with this Banjo Origin Story)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ian Boone! We recorded this in person on Monday evening on my front porch, 6 feet apart with mask…
Episode 212: Matt Brown (Two-Finger Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Matt Brown! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
So…
Episode 211: Leela Grace (Family Bands, Songwriting, and Undoing Bad Music Education)
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 ap…
Episode 210: Aaron Jonah Lewis (Classic Banjo and Ragtime)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Aaron Jonah Lewis and special guest accompanist Grace van’t Hof! We recorded this in June for E…
Episode 209: Grace van't Hof (Pop, Country, and Queerness in the Early 20th Century)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Grace van’t Hof! We recorded this via Skype a few weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts after…
Episode 208: Maddie Witler (Mandolin in Old Time and Lateral Learning)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Maddie Witler! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 207: Nicole Singer (Traditional Unaccompanied Singing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nicole Singer! We recorded this via Skype two weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts afterward…
Episode 206: Rupert Deese (Far Flung Fiddle Contest)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rupert Deese! We recorded this in person in July in front of my home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes…
Episode 205: Tatiana Hargreaves (Music For Others and Music For Yourself)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Tatiana Hargreaves! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwar…
Episode 204: Brandi Pace (Decolonizing the Music Room)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Brandi Pace! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
Tu…
Episode 203: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (Hold Each Other Up)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer! We recorded this via Skype last week and I recorded my musical par…
Episode 202: Josh Larios (Explains Low-Latency Online Jamming)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Josh Larios! We recorded this via JamKazam last week, Josh in Seattle, me in Portland, and unlike…
Episode 201: Albin Ekman (Swedish Fiddle Music and Dance)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Albin Ekman! We recorded this via Skype recently and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.
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Episode 200: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 200! Ft. Rachel Eddy)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest HOST is Rachel Eddy! They graciously agreed to interview me for this, Get Up in the Cool’s 200th epis…
Episode 199: Jake Blount (Spider Tales)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jake Blount! We recorded this via Skype a couple weeks ago and I recorded my musical parts afterw…
Episode 198: Tony Mates (Old Time Community Service)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Tony Mates, with special guest guitarist Kate Lichtenstein! This is my last pre-covid 19 episode.…