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 81: Bitter Bloom (Domenica Romagni and Morgan Harris)
*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 80: Peter Mawanga (Traditional Music from Malawi)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I have a really special friend this week: Peter Mawanga! Peter is a long-time collaborator with former Get Up in the Co…
Episode 79: Andy McLeod (A Curated History of Fingerstyle Guitar)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Andy McLeod, and he brought with him a wonderful little history lesson on fingerstyle guitar!
Tu…
Episode 78: Matt Brown (Fiddler! Educator! Producer!)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Matt Brown: old time fiddler, educator, and producer! I’m going to cut to the chase: I’m releasin…
Episode 77: Devin Forest-Hines (Easy to Hear, Hard to Play)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Devin Forest-Hines, with special guest friend Amelia Baker on guitar. We recorded this in Portlan…
Episode 76: Brooks Masten (Banjo Builder)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Brooks Masten. The banjo builder!
Tunes we’ll play:
Sandy River Belle
Barlow Knife
Rats Gone to …
Episode 75: Jess McIntosh (Suzuki/Crooked Tunes/The Gun Control Ads of Yesteryear)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jess McInstosh; we recorded this over Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago, the day after I recorded C…
Episode 74: Ken Perlman (Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Perlman. The Ken Perlman!
Tunes we’ll play:
Billy in the Lowlands
Folding Down the Sheets
Sq…
Episode 73: Charlie Walden (Midwest Fiddling, Old Time Radio, and The Mando Mule)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Charlie Walden. We recorded this at Rupert and Karen’s house in Chicago, so... thanks, new Chicag…
Episode 72: Scott Mathis and Linda Askew (Music from the Tohono O'odham Nation)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Scott Mathis and Linda Askew, and they brought with them GuAchi music from the Tohono O’odham n…
Episode 71: Joel Brown (Folk Punk, Crooked Tunes, and Community)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joel Brown! This interview was recorded in August at Joel’s house in Portland, OR, when I was in …
Episode 70: Chris Dalnodar & Andy McLeod (Live at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Chris Dalnodar and Andy McLeod, and we recorded this interview and jam in front of a live, mode…
Episode 69: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House PART II)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s episode is part II of my show with Jake Blount at John Salmon’s house. Once again, this is a bit of a depar…
Episode 68: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jake Blount, and today’s episode is a show that we played as a duo in Philly at John Salmon’s hou…
Episode 67: Candace Showalter (Rockbridge 2017)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Candace Showalter! If you want to hear us play Three Forks of the Cheat, this week’s bonus track,…
Episode 66: Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner (Marcus Martin Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! These week’s friends are Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner from The Leveetoppers! When I asked what tunes they wanted to pl…
Episode 65: William Seeders Mosheim (Maker of Banjos and Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is William Seeders Mosheim, of Seeders Instruments and Carling and Will! We recorded this in front o…
Episode 64: Hen's Teeth (Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager, AKA Hen’s Teeth! We played some old time music that I’m ex…
Episode 63: Hunter Walker (Dulcimer Ambassador)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Hunter Walker from Long Point String Band, with special guest guitarist and also friend Brian Bel…
Episode 62: Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Kristian Herner, Lydia Malmqvist (My New Swedish Pals)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I have a lot of friends this week! Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Lydia Malmqvist, and Kristian Herner, from the band…