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 101: Brad Kolodner (Old Time in the Community)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brad Kolodner! Brad was my guest for episode one, and this is episode 101, and I feel very sentim…
Episode 100: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 100! Ft. Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is episode 100, and we have two special guest hosts today: Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery, and I’m the guest. The…
Episode 99: Corey Husic (Gorillas, Birding, and Clyde Davenport Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Corey Husic! As the title would suggest, the conversation goes in some interesting places.
Tune…
Episode 98: Leigh Rudner (Cello in Old Time Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is old time cellist, Leigh Rudner!
Tunes we’ll play:
Johnny Court the Widow
Sail Away Ladies
Elk Ri…
Episode 97: Charlie Walden (Possum's Big Fiddle Show)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s episode is a crossover, shared universe, trad music spectacular with Charlie Walden’s new podcast, Possum’s…
Episode 96: Ellen and Pete Vigour (Uncle Henry's Favorites)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ellen and Pete Vigour from Uncle Henry’s Favorites! They came up from Charlottesville for the B…
Episode 95: Ida Mae Specker (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ida Mae Specker! We recorded this in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion a …
Episode 94: Jason Cade (Half a Hog-Eyed Man)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jason Cade, of Hog-Eyed Man.
Tunes we’ll play:
Poplar Bluff
Rye Straw
Bruce Green’s Jake Phelps…
Episode 93: Dara Weiss (Old Time Songs)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dara Weiss, from All Day Breakfast Stringband! We recorded at Black Creek about a week and a half…
Episode 92: Joe Troop (Is Friends with a Smelly Old Bear)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joe Troop from Che Apalache, your favorite latingrass band! Joe and I had what might be the most …
Episode 91: Riley Calcagno (Wants to Hang Out Backstage)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Riley Calcagno of The Onlies, and more recently of Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno. We recorded th…
Episode 90: Max Evans (Old Time in Canada, Formational Tunes, and Trendy Vegetables)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Max Evans, fiddler for All Day Breakfast Stringband. We recorded this in Vancouver, BC, the morni…
Episode 89: Molly Tenenbaum (Mystery, Joy, and Old Time Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is old time banjoist and poet Molly Tenenbaum.
Tunes we’ll play:
Sail Away Ladies
Sikepa Inongwa Mu…
Episode 88: Armin Barnett (Old Time Sources)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Armin Barnett, another new friend from Seattle! Armin chose some really neat tunes, and he shed s…
Episode 87: Emily Keene (The Golden Age of Traditional Music in Seattle/Old Time Harmonica)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Emily Keene. As we started warming up, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this would be …
Episode 86: Jenny Monfore (Will Homestead for Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jenny Monfore. We recorded this at her place in Seattle, a few days before the East Vancouver Old…
Episode 85: Squirrel Butter (Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck of Squirrel Butter! We recorded this at Scott Killops’ house du…
Episode 84: Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers (Old Time Music of Southwestern Pennsylvania)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers, and they brought some traditional music from Southwestern Pen…
Episode 83: Lyle de Vitry (Old Time Obsession/Excavating Tombs)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is my good buddy Lyle de Vitry, and I’m excited for you to meet him if you haven’t already, because …
Episode 82: Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones (A Trip to Dittyville)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Many of you already know this week’s friends, because they’re some of Old Time’s most active performers, educators and …