Get Up in the Cool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Shell Eaves! We recorded this in her apartment in Sydney right before the Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival. This episode is sponsored by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instruments and accessories. Next time you want to upgrade your instrument or you run out of...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend Nara Demasson, with special guest Gareth Bjaaland on guitar! We recorded this in a cabin at Gareth’s family farm in Barkers Vale, NSW. This episode is sponsored by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instruments and accessories. Next time you want to upgrade your instrume...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Flick Law and Jacqui Mckenzie We recorded this in their backyard in Melbourne. This episode is brought to you in part by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instruments and accessories. Next time you want to upgrade your instrument or you run out of strings, or lose...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Craig Woodward! We recorded this in front of a live audience at the Nimbin Roots Festival. Tunes we’ll play: Ladies on the Steamboat Roscoe Fishin’ Without Permission Cuttin’ at the Point Breaking Up Christmas Bonus Track: Old Sledge This episode is sponsored by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Mic...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Cat Moser and Clint Dylan O’Gradey, AKA Cat & Clint. We recorded this at Twangadiddlydoo at Ayesha and Richard MacEwan’s place in Lockwood South, Victoria. Tunes we’ll play: Snake Winder Tea Tree Waltz Done Gone I Don’t Love Nobody Rain and Snow Lost Hornpipe Bonus Track: Hook and Line This...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Gareth Bjaaland, with special guest Nara Demasson on guitar. We recorded this on his family’s land in Barkers Vale NSW, outside of Nimbin. Tunes we'll play: Magpie Henty Man There Goes Ollie Up the Stairs Sarah Armstrong’s Tune Lonesome John Bonus Track: Johnny Cope This episode of Get Up in the C...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Laura Murawski! We recorded this at Burhania during Clifftop! Thanks so much AGAIN to all the Burhanses. Tunes we’ll play: Poor Little Mary Sitting in a Corner Waldorf’s Reel No Time to Think Barbary Allen Abe’s Retreat Bonus track: Ride Old Buck to Water This episode of Get Up in the Cool is brou...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Haakon Oyen. We recorded this at Ry Burhans’ camp at clifftop! Thanks Ry! This episode of Get Up in the Cool is brought to you in part by Kauai Old Time! They have a special message for Old time musicians and dancers, Music lovers and travelers. Aloha y’all. Tickets are on sale for the 2nd Annual...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Clara Delfina! We recorded this at Burhania during Clifftop! Thanks AGAIN to Hilarie and Mark and Ry for letting me record at your camp this year! This episode of Get Up in the Cool is brought to you by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instruments and accessories. N...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Tom MacKenzie from Vermont! We recorded this at Vermont’s own Old Time on the Onion! Thanks again to RD Eno for inviting me to come teach the workshop! This episode of Get Up in the Cool is brought to you by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instruments and accessori...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jane Rothfield, returning for her third appearance on Get Up in the Cool! Also joining us on guitar is Michael Starkey from Edinburgh. We recorded this at Burhania during Clifftop! Thanks again to Hilarie and Mark and Ry for letting me record at your camp this year! This episode of Get Up in the C...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rinn Netherton! I ran into them Sunday night at Clifftop right after Ben Wetherbee and I arrived, and we set up a last minute recording session for the following morning. This episode of Get Up in the Cool is brought to you by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan—my goto for traditional instru...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Gailanne Amundsen and Shona Carr! We recorded this at Burhania during Clifftop! Thanks again to Hilarie and Mark and Ry for letting me record all the episodes in your lovely space! It was by far the rainiest clifftop I’ve ever been to, and I really don’t know how I could have conducted my show a...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nate Paine, the closest living source we have of Jon Bekoff’s tunes and fiddling. We recorded this at the 2nd annual Old Time on the Onion in Vermont about a month ago. Shout out to RD Eno for asking me to teach the banjo workshop! I am absolutely delighted to tell you that this episode of Get Up...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Kristina Gaddy and Pete Ross. We recorded at their home about a month ago when I was in town to play the Baltimore Square Dance. A few notes about this episode: I’m playing guitar because it made the most sense for Pete to play banjo in this one. Also, I added the explicit tag to the episode des...

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 sentimental about that. I love having guests return on the show, because we get past the basic “how did you get in to old time” question and into the good stuff! And Brad has lots of good stuff to share, esp...

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. They interviewed me and for better or worse I chose the tunes! Quick shout out to Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion: thanks again for hosting Get Up in the Cool for the third year in a row! I hope I can find...

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.  Tunes we’ll play: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Kitty Puss Old Buzzard The Horse Called Rover Jenny Get Around Bonus Track: Walkin’ in the Parlor Get Up in the Cool Vol. 2 is now availabe for pre-or...

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 River Blues Down in the Willow Garden Rockingham Cindy Bonus Track: Julianne Johnson Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Support Get Up in the Cool a year a...

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 Big Fiddle Show!  This episode is a special video episode! Watch us on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAljvnmQwFU  Tunes we’ll play: Humansville Brandywine Talk to Dinah Virg...

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 Brandywine Revival and I was happy to be able to steal them away for a minute. You’ll get to hear their musical and romantic origin stories, some great tunes and songs, excellently performed, and an old...

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 few weeks ago. Tunes we’ll play: Boil Them Cabbage Down June Apple Hanged Man’s Reel Cumberland Gap Arkansas Sheikh Bonus Track: Indian War Whoop Ida Mae Specker’s website: https://www.idamaespecker.co...

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’ Will Stegall’s Durang’s Hornpipe Kentucky Winder Allen Sisson’s Cumberland Gap Bonus Track: Byard Ray’s Flight of the Wild Geese Hog-Eyed Man’s albums, shows, and Tune Journeys: https://www.hogey...

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 ago. Thanks for having us, Black Creek! This episode is all songs, and I’m going to try to get a better ratio of songs to tunes in the future because this was so much fun!  Songs we’ll sing: Darl...

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 whimsical jam to ever take place on the show, punctuated by some real thoughtful and convicting conversation. I’m excited for you to hear it! Tunes we’ll play: Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase Silly Bill S...