Get Up in the Cool

_UPDATE: _ This episode was recorded at the Appalachian String Band Festival in August 2016 and released on October 12, 2016. In July 2017 Pappas pled guilty to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. In November 2017 he was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison. The rest of the show notes are the complete original post from October 12, 2016. His album Lost in the Lowlands has been removed from June Appal Recordings; the link no longer works. Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend was named Kentucky Master Fiddle Player by The National Endowment of the Arts, and I’m real proud to have him on the show. His name is Nikos Pappas, and he’s got trills for days. Also, he’s got his PhD in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, so by the end of this episode, you’ll know what a “negative tropism” is and how to use it in your day to day life. But, academic as he is, Nikos has a very earnest love for this music and its history; you can hear it in his playing and his stories. You’re really going to like this one. Check out Nikos Pappas' Lost in the Lowlands: https://www.appalshop.org/store/june-appal-recordings/nikos-pappas-lost-in-the-lowlands/   Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt Like Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool! Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week's friend is David Bass! October is Get Up in the Cool month, which means I’m sharing my conversations and jams with all of Old Time’s heaviest hitters, and in exchange, I’m asking you, my listeners, to help me share the show on Facebook, rate the show on iTunes, and generally use all your collective influence to make Get Up in the Cool break the internet. Also, if the spirit moves you, please sign up to be a sustaining supporter of Get Up in the Cool on Patreon. If you sign up by the end of October, you’ll get a best of 2016 CD, and you’ll get to help me decide what’s on it. Girls Rock NC's Fall Festival: https://www.facebook.com/events/554456188090352/ Jody Kruskal's Waiting for the Boatsman album: http://jodykruskal.com/buy_stuff.html Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is concertinist Jody Kruskal. If you don't know what a concertina is, that's normal—Jody will explain everything, just know that you're in for treat. Jody Kruskal is definitely one of my favorite people to play with; when I’m wandering around at night at the festivals I listen for that unique quality that only jams with concertinas can have; it’s like you meeting a german hiker on the appalachian trail; foreign but compatible. Check out Jody's website: http://jodykruskal.com  Buy Jody's stuff: http://jodykruskal.com/buy_stuff  Check out Jody's Gamelan: http://www.gamelansonoflion.org Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: http://patreon.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to episode 12 of Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s episode is the second installment in the Baltimore Boys trilogy, featuring Luke Chohany: a fantastic old time and bluegrass guitarist, and I gotta say… he really does have a lovely voice; we take a sweet little break from being rowdy boys and Luke sings a couple and it is fine, fine, fine singing.  Check out Luke's new music: https://stringsound.bandcamp.com/  Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Alex Kramer. When we recorded this I really didn’t know anything about him, but I knew that I liked his playing quite a bit and I perceived him to be a bit of an eccentric. I’ll let you be the judge of that. We were unable to come up with an official theme for our jam, but here’s a sampling of what you can look forward to in the next hour: We play Isham Monday’s Old Time Fire on the Mountain I have a moment of pride when I successfully make it through a particularly squirrely tune Alex explores the obstacles of starting your own religion I make the following cultural references and take their ubiquity for granted: Kristen Wiig, the Transporter movies, PT Cruisers And at one point, Alex says, “Come on, old paint, lets get up this hill.” And for some reason, I can’t stop thinking about it. All that’s to say, this one’s a real mix-tape, musically and conversationally, but it’s all good, and I’m glad you get to be a fly on the wall for what is essentially our first of hopefully many hangs. Stick around after the interview to find out how to hear more of Alex’s music, how to support Get Up in the Cool and where to listen to this week’s Bonus Track. Alex Kramer, everybody. Enjoy! 5 Mile String Band: http://5milestringband.bandcamp.com/ Alex’s Website: http://www.alexkramermusic.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Hi friends! I hope you’re all ready to Get Up in the Cool, by which I mean, get transported to a magical fairy land because this week for episode 10 Deb Justice brought her hammered dulcimer. Deb has her PhD in ethnomusicology, so she’s real nerdy about this stuff, which, as you should know by now, is very welcome on this show! Also, she’s quite snarky, because she has to be; there’s a social cost to playing hammered dulcimer in the old time community, which I don’t understand, because it’s a captivating instrument, but I’ll let her explain that in more detail. Stick around after the interview for details on how to support the show and get access to this week’s bonus track! Also, there is an accompanying video, so make sure to click on the link in the episode’s description and share it on Facebook! Deb Justice, everybody. Here it comes. Support the Show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Middle Eastern Music for Hammered Dulcimer: http://www.melbay.com/Products/20616EB/middle-eastern-music-for-hammered-dulcimer.aspx Contact Deb Justice: http://www.deborahjustice.org/contact/

Welcome to episode 9 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt, and Friends. I’m Cameron, and my featured friend this week is fiddler Chris Dalnodar. Seeing as we both live in Philadelphia and his was the first local episode of the show, Chris thought it would be nice to do some Pennsylvania, or more specifically, Pennsatucky tunes. All of the tunes in this episode were performed by Ms. Sarah Armstrong and transcribed by ethnomusicologist Samuel Bayard outside of Derry, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1943. While the transcriptions are easy to find, these tunes aren’t as popular as they should be! So I hope that all you fiddlers out there will be inspired to add a little Pennsatucky to your repertoire so I can play these tunes with you.   Stick around after the episode to learn how to get access to this week’s bonus track, “Over the Stump and Back Again.” Chris Dalnodar, everybody! WEST PHILLY SQUARE DANCE:  https://www.facebook.com/westphillysquaredance/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool HILL COUNTRY TUNES http://www.mne.psu.edu/lamancusa/tunes/hct/HCT.pdf

Welcome to Episode 8 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week I’m proud to present my interview and jam with Ethnomusicologist, Fiddler, Banjo player, and BFF Jake Blount. This week’s theme is African American Fiddling! Jake has access to private recordings Mike Seeger made of prominent black fiddlers; so he learned these rare tunes and now you can hear them! That’s right, this is another Get Up in the Cool exclusive! Rise Again by Jake Blount and Emma Joy: https://jakeandemma.bandcamp.com/ Durang's Hornpipe by Moose Whisperers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgpKGmcjDo Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Recorded at Black Creek Fiddlers Reunion 2016

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week, I’m proud to present Episode 7, featuring Keith McManus, honorary mayor of clifftop, actual mayor of Greensboro, Pennsylvania. Also joining us are Jim Meckley and Vince Farsatta from Keith’s band, Stewed Mulligan, on guitar and banjo, respectively, as well as Mike Hall filling in on Bass. If you want to hear the bonus track, featuring Vince Farsatta leading a rousing version of the quintessential old time song, Reuben’s Train, click here to support the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Click here for details on the Greensboro, PA Art Blast: http://www.natgreene.org/art-blast-on-the-mon.html  Buy Stewed Mulligan's CD's here: http://www.stewedmulligan.com/

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool, episode 6, wherein I jam and chat with renaissance man Brian Slattery. I really love the theme of this episode: Brian doesn’t learn old time tunes from source recordings, so he chose tunes that he learned from specific people, in person. In a way, Brian is more old time than my nerdiest guests (God bless them); his sources are all relational. Also, he lets the folk process do its work; Brian likes to say that he isn’t “precious” about “what the tune is.” Big thanks to Harry Bolick and Pat Schories for hosting this episode at their beautiful home and feeding us wonderful food. Stick around after the interview for details on how to support the show and get access to this week’s bonus track: another tune from my jam with Brian and Harry with the ever-so-quaint title: Rats Gone to Rest. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Hello Friends! This is episode 5 of Get Up in the Cool, wherein one of my favorite people ever, Bach Bui, plays James Bryan playing Mack Blalock; I’ll let Bach explain the details. Suffice it to say, you probably haven’t heard these tunes, as they are mostly extinct in jams, and unavailable digitally. Enjoy! Click here to support Get Up in the Cool: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Recorded at Black Creek Fiddler's Reunion 2016

This is Get Up in the Cool Episode 4: A New Hope. This is actually the first episode I recorded, and I’m so glad that my first guest was the mischievous and charismatic Ryland Burhans. He was the very first person to respond when I began to look for guests, and he’s a real chatty Cathy, so that was helpful, because I had never interviewed anyone before. If you want to support the show and access bonus content, click here: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Welcome to episode 3 of Get Up in the Cool! This week’s episode features Rachel Junior and Helen Dana La Fleur of Sick Sad & Lonesome. Their specialty is Old time and Bluegrass vocal duets! This one’s chock full of purdy singin’. Here’s how great this episode is: I actually enjoyed editing this! Audio editing is usually a grueling, tedious task, but this time, it was delightful. We recorded this at the Harry Smith Frolic, under my easy-up canopy, in the woods, next to a river. sigh it was perfect. And it pleases me to think of you all gleaning some of that perfection through the binary code, on your commute.  Make sure to check out Rachel and Helen with Sick Sad & Lonesome at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge MA, 1st Tuesdays starting in September. While you’re waiting for September to roll around, like them on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/sicksadandlonesome/?fref=ts To financially support Get Up in the Cool and get access to exclusive content, go to https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Today we have a very special friend on the show, Harry Bolick. This year Harry released his book of transcriptions called Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, and we’re going to play a few tunes from it. These tunes are really interesting; definitely a departure from your typical Appalachian stuff.  If you want to become a patron of the show and access exclusive bonus content, go to http://patreon.com/getupinthecool  Check out Harry's Website: http://mississippifiddle.com Get the book at the University Press of Mississippi: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1839 or Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mississippi-fiddle-tunes-and-songs-from-the-1930s-harry-bolick/1121843180  or Amazon (so many options!): https://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Fiddle-Tunes-Songs-American/dp/1496804074  Download the recordings from Bandcamp: https://harrybolick.bandcamp.com or order discs from: http://mississippifiddle.com.

Part One in the "Baltimore Boys" series, wherein I jam with the friends (and tenants) of Brad Kolodner. We discuss growing up in the household of hammered-dulcimer titan, Ken Kolodner, and play some of their best modern takes on traditional tunes. This episode features three clawhammer banjo duets, which you don't hear everyday (hopefully). There's an exciting tension to these recordings; lining up bum-diddies (the basic clawhammer stroke) is no easy task. But I think we made something special, and I hope you agree. Also, I found out Brad's a straight-up DJ! Dude's pro in an interview; I've got a lot to learn. Recorded at Brad's Place in 2016