Episode 115: Nara Demasson (Instrument Maker)

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 instrument or you run out of strings, or lose your favorite pick, or your tuner breaks, go stock up at https://www.elderly.com/. Tunes we’ll play: Spider Bit the Baby Maysville Why Did the Preacher Love Chicken So? Booth Ed Haley's Lost Indian Bonus track: Three Forks of Cheat Nara’s website: https://narademasson.weebly.com/ VulgarGrad’s website: https://vulgargrad.com/ VulgarGrad on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VulgarGrad/ The Wikimen’s website: https://wikimen.wordpress.com/ The Wikimen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWikimen/ The Gob Iron Stringband’s on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Gob-Iron-String-Band-989792297766818/ The Greater Glider Stringband on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/greatergliderstringband Nara and I on Just Make the Thing: https://omny.fm/shows/justmakethething/cameron-dewhitt-nara-demasson-love-old-time-music 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.websiteSupport Get Up in the Cool

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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.