Get Up in the Cool show

Get Up in the Cool

Summary: 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.

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 Episode 135: Gary Vann (Traditional Music in Brisbane) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 46:17

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Gary Vann. We recorded this last September at his home in Brisbane. Tunes in this episode: Whiskey Before Breakfast Dry and Dusty Cherokee Shuffle Red Haired Boy Soldier’s Joy Waltzing Matilda Bonus track: Mississippi Sawyer Study banjo, fiddle, and mandolin with Gary Vann: http://www.garyvann.com.au/ Cameron is going on tour with Jake Blount in April! Follow the links below and RSVP: D.C. Baltimore Lancaster Brooklyn New Haven Portland Providence (Message Get Up in the Cool on Facebook for invitation to the private event) Boston (Message Get Up in the Cool on Facebook for invitation to the private event) Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 134: Hanna Traynham (Old Time Banjo) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 54:54

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Hanna Traynham! We recorded this last week at her home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes in this episode: Lost Indian Singin’ Birds Little Birdie Cuckoo Bird Shady Grove Last Chance Bonus track: Sandy River Merry Mountain Hoedown by The Traynham Family: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thetraynhamfamily Horses in the Canebreak by The Barn Owls: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thebarnowls The Barn Owls website: http://barnowlsmusic.com/ The Barn Owls on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barnowlsoldtimemusic/ The Barn Owls play (and teach at) Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival: https://hiawathamusic.org/ 6th Annual Gospel Event for Sinners and Saints: https://www.facebook.com/events/2296656580615383/ Cameron is going on tour with Jake Blount in April! Follow the links below and RSVP: D.C. Baltimore Lancaster Brooklyn New Haven Portland Providence (Message Get Up in the Cool on Facebook for invitation to the private event) Boston (Message Get Up in the Cool on Facebook for invitation to the private event) Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 133: Amy Hakanson (Explains What a Nyckelharpa Is) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 56:40

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Amy Hakanson! We recorded this about a month ago at my house in Portland, Oregon. Tunes we’ll play: Gilsaw/Katie at the Door Squirrel Hunters Flodens Död Bellmans Polska Bisonpolska Bonus track: Vagnshusschottis Varelse’s website: https://varelsemusic.com/ Like and Follow Varelse on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/varelsemusic/ Amy’s website: https://www.amyhakanson.com/ Varelse’s CD release show: https://www.facebook.com/events/324477848203006/ Cameron is going on tour with Jake Blount in April! Follow the links below and RSVP: D.C. Baltimore Lancaster Brooklyn New Haven Portland Providence Boston Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 132: Jesse Partridge (Trad Music and Community in Olympia, WA) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 45:04

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jesse Partridge! We recorded this after the Oly Old Time Festival at Jesse’s house in Olympia, Washington. Tunes we’ll play: Jimmy Johnson Hangman’s Reel Spotted Pony Goin’ Up to Hamburg North Carolina Breakdown Bonus track: Jonesboro Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and earn exclusive rewards: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-in-the-cool/id1131463879?mt=2 Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 131: Jimmy Rush (Old Time Flatpicker) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 42:33

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jimmy Rush! We recorded this last October on the porch of Hunter and Suzy Owens’s backyard cabin in Sydney, NSW. Tunes we’ll play: Push That Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire Billy in the Lowland March Winds Forked Deer No Hiding Place Bonus track: Bonaparte’s Retreat (banjo duet) See Jimmy Rush live with "The Three Jimmies" at the Sydney Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Get-together: https://www.facebook.com/events/651526981969871/ Buy Jimmy Rush's album, Inspired, with Nigel Lever: http://australianbluegrass.com.au/shop/product/jimmy-rush-nigel-lever-inspired/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and earn exclusive rewards: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-in-the-cool/id1131463879?mt=2 Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 130: Robin Fischer (Square Dance Calling) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 48:42

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Robin Fischer! We recorded this in my home on the Friday of the Portland Old Time Music Gathering. Tunes we’ll play: Porter’s Reel Sugar Hill Booth Shot Lincoln Black Eyed Susie Irish Waltz Bonus track: Chattanooga Do you love playing old-time music with friends? Do you enjoy playing tunes in the beauty of nature? Are you up for an adventure? Then come to the fourth annual Old-Time Weekend in the Alps, happening this fall in Switzerland! Join us from September 20th-22nd 2019 for a gathering of old-time musicians from around Europe. We have the pleasure of welcoming Jane Rothfield as our tutor this year. You’re sure to make some international friends as you learn new tunes and techniques in the majestic setting of the Swiss Alps. For more information and to register, check out https://www.oldtimemusic.ch/. Hire Robin Fischer as a caller, performer, or fiddle teacher: http://www.robinrfischer.com/ Robin’s band, The Bearcat Stringband: http://www.bearcatstringband.com/ And Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bearcatstringband Bay Area Square Dances: North Oakland Square Dance on 1st and 3rd Fridays (Robin is calling March 15 and April 19): https://www.facebook.com/NorthOaklandSquareDance/ Feral Fourth Friday Dance on 4th Fridays: https://www.facebook.com/FeralFourthFridayDance/ Dare to Be Square: https://www.facebook.com/DareToBeSquare Dare to Be Square West: https://www.facebook.com/DareToBeSquareWest/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and earn exclusive rewards: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-in-the-cool/id1131463879?mt=2 Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 129: Jamie Fox (Métis Fiddling in the US) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 1:00:00

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jamie Fox! Also joining us, for his third appearance on Get Up in the Cool, is Scotty Leach. We recorded this in January at my home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes we’ll play: Barn Raising/Ice on the Road/Blue Mountain Hornpipe Reel of 4/Drops of Brandy Empty Canoe Moccasin Shuffle/Saddle Old Paint The Teardrop Waltz Bonus track: Zacha Reel Check out Jamie's feature on The Old Time Tiki Parlour: http://oldtimetikiparlour.com/2019/01/metis-fiddler-jamie-fox-visits-the-tiki-parlour/ This episode is brought to you by the Earful of Fiddle Music & Dance Camp! Earful of Fiddle is an immersive lakeside music and dance camp in Rodney, Michigan, whose mission is the use of traditional music and dance as community-building entertainment fostering creative arts practice. Now in its eleventh year, Earful of Fiddle provides instruction in percussive dance, song, fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, cello and uke as well as informal music sessions and evening dances from June 23-28, 2019. This year’s instructors include: Ruby John, Bruce Bauman, Jake Blount, Micah Ling, Nic Gareiss and Danielle Enblom. To register, visit www.earfuloffiddle.com. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and earn exclusive rewards: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-in-the-cool/id1131463879?mt=2 Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 128: Ellie Hakanson (The Importance of Bass Moms, Cute Grandma Tunes, and Rocky Top) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 52:46

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ellie Hakanson! We recorded this in January at my home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes we’ll play: Ashland Breakdown A Few Old Memories Snow Dear Hard Times Come Again No More Utpick Waltz Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Bonus track: Jerusalem Ridge Ellie's band, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado’s website: http://www.jeffscrogginsandcolorado.com/ Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffscrogginsandcolorado/ Buy their album Over the Line: http://yhst-1309885141442.stores.yahoo.net/prpacdjescco.html Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Review Get Up in the Cool on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-in-the-cool/id1131463879?mt=2 Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 127: Ashlee Watkins and Andrew Small (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 1:09:54

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ashlee Watkins and Andrew Small! We recorded this in the green room trailer at the Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival back in October. Dorrigo is held on Gumbaynggirr Country. Sovereignty never ceded. It's Get Up in the Cool Month! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and get cool rewards! Also, please share this link on social media! https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Tunes we’ll play: Sleepy Cindy Brown’s Dream My Better Years Hello Stranger Wasted Words Reuben’s Train Bonus track: Walkin’ in the Parlour Like and follow The New Macedon Rangers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashleeandandrew/ Listen to The New Macedon Rangers on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/newmacedonrangers?fbclid=IwAR32I8wPbLKrB6-U8nNlbID8xbw8HStuWb3eKpzXVdG7WQr1WIea5Y5BmMc Like and follow The Haywood Billy Goats: https://www.facebook.com/HaywoodBillyGoats/ Check out Ashlee and Andrew’s Dorrigo Old-Time Music School: https://www.dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au/dorrigo-folk-music-school.html Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 126: Jim Childress (Live at Clifftop 2018) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 52:44

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jim Childress! Also joining us is former guest of the show Pete Vigour on guitar. This is the last remaining episode from last summer’s Clifftop sessions. It's Get Up in the Cool Month! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and get cool rewards! Also, please share this link on social media! https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Tunes we’ll play: Meadowhawk Shadowdragon Eye of the Beholder Cumberland Gap I Come to Win (Fair If I Can) Bonus track: Walk the Cat Buy Jim Childress albums on CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/JimChildress Buy Uncle Henry’s Favorites’ album on CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/unclehenrysfavs Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 125: Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 55:42

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski! We recorded this in front of an audience on stage in a community garden at the Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival in October. And I apologize for not mentioning this last episode, but Dorrigo is held on Gumbaynggirr Country. Sovereignty never ceded. It's Get Up in the Cool Month! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and get cool rewards! Also, please share this link on social media! https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Tunes we’ll play: Ida Red Milwaukee Blues Cherry River Rag The Brood of Hate Looking for Money Bonus track: Trombone Rag Amy and Mark's new website: https://www.hootandhollermusic.com/ Buy Milkers and Hollers, Amy and Mark's new album: https://hootandhollermusic.bandcamp.com/album/milkers-and-hollers Like and Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hootandhollermusic/ and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hootandhollermusic/ Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 124: Whoa Mule (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:58

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I’ve got so many great friends this week! A whole band actually: Miriam Jones, Naomi Jones, Sujata Allan and Kate Barker from Sydney’s own Whoa Mule. We recorded this in the campgrounds at the Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival in October on Gumbaynggirr Country. Sovereignty never ceded. It's Get Up in the Cool Month! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and get cool rewards! Also, please share this link on social media! https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Tunes we’ll play: Half Irish Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom John Riley the Shepherd Little Black Train Cold in Coburg/Hell Among the Yearlings/New Five Cent Piece Bonus track: My Love Flies Order Whoa Mule's CD on CDBaby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/whoamule2 Download their digital album on Bandcamp: https://whoamule.bandcamp.com/album/get-your-house-in-order Listen to Whoa Mule on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4f91N1j7wja0Y6q0wKuObC?si=1ctQBJFORoeik4H5JJLo3Q Like and Follow Whoa Mule on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whoamulemusic/ and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoamulemusic/ Contact Whoa Mule an email: whoamulemusic@gmail.com Miriam Jones’ article about murder ballads: https://overland.org.au/2017/11/why-do-we-love-to-sing-murder-ballads-tradition-feminism-and-bluegrass/ Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 123: Paul Brown (Live at Mountaingrass 2018) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 59:37

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Paul Brown. We recorded this in front of a live audience at Mountaingrass in Central VIC, AUS, November of 2018. It's Get Up in the Cool Month! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon and get cool rewards! Also, please share this link on social media! https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Tunes we’ll play: Lady of the Lake Mississippi Sawyer Pretty Little Girl When the Train Comes Along Red Clay Country The Girl I Love Blues Bonus track: Cumberland Gap Paul Brown’s website: http://www.paulbrown.us.com/ Buy Red Clay Country: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/PaulBrown1 Buy Red Dog: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/paulbrowncompany Buy Bryant & Brown: http://oldtimetikiparlour.com/product/bryant-brown/ Buy Paul Brown’s solo album/DVD: http://oldtimetikiparlour.com/product/paul-brown-cd-dvd-set/ Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for supporting the show. Visit their website: https://www.elderly.com/.

 Episode 122: John Reischman and Eli West (Writing Viral Tunes and Australian Wildlife) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 39:12

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are John Reischman and Eli West. We recorded this right before they caught a plane to Tasmania, on the front porch of the cabin in the backyard of Hunter and Suzy Owens’ house in Sydney. Tunes we’ll play: Road to Malvern Salt River Salt Spring Sweet Marie Walk Along John Bonus track: Norman D, or Johnny Wombat This episode is brought to you in part by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. When the urge to buy more instruments surfaces, or you just need more music accessories like picks and tuners and strings, go stock up at https://www.elderly.com/. John’s website: http://www.johnreischman.com/ John’s albums: http://www.johnreischman.com/recordings Eli’s website: http://eliwest.fyi/ Eli’s albums: https://elidoes.bandcamp.com/album/the-both Contact Cameron for clawhammer lessons: https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/contact Get Up in the Cool Vol. 2 is now available: https://camerondewhitt.bandcamp.com/ Get Up in the Cool's website: https://getupinthecool.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Support Get Up in the Cool a year at a time: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/store Buy a Telegram to be read on Get Up in the Cool: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/store Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Cameron DeWhitt's website: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/ Cameron DeWhitt's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to Think Outside the Box Set: http://boxset.website

 Episode 121: David Hoffmann (So Uncool it's Cool) | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 45:52

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is David Hoffmann. We recorded this in the backyard of Hunter and Suzy Owens’ house in Sydney. Tunes we'll play: Forked Deer Five Miles of Ellum Wood Redbird Hanged Man’s Reel Far on the Mountain Bonus track: 9th of January This episode is brought to you in part by Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. It’s a great place to look for new and vintage instruments and stock up on picks and tuners and strings. If you’re not anywhere near their brick and mortar store, you should checkout their online store at https://www.elderly.com/. Narrownecks website: https://www.narrownecks.com/ And like and follow them on FB: https://www.facebook.com/narrownecks/ Contact Cameron for clawhammer lessons: https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/contact Get Up in the Cool Vol. 2 is now available: https://camerondewhitt.bandcamp.com/ Get Up in the Cool's website: https://getupinthecool.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Support Get Up in the Cool a year at a time: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/store Buy a Telegram to be read on Get Up in the Cool: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/store Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool/ Join Get Up in the Cool's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getupinthecool/ Cameron DeWhitt's website: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/ Cameron DeWhitt's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to Think Outside the Box Set: http://boxset.website

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