Episode 151: Micah Ling (Old Time Cello, Folklore, and Festival Dress)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Micah Ling! We recorded this in June at the Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp in Rodney, Michigan. Tunes in this episode: Lost Everything Betty and Beauty Fall On My Knees Old Man at the Mill Kingdom Come Bonus track: Waynesboro Micah Ling’s album Kingdom Come: https://micahling.bandcamp.com/album/kingdom-come Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool This episode is brought to you in part by Banjo Newsletter! Banjo Newsletter has published old-time banjo content in every issue since its founding in 1973. Along with Dan Levenson’s quarterly section “The Old-Time Way,” which consists of profiles, reviews and tabs, banjo Newsletter has three monthly old-time banjo columns. Recent players and builders they’ve covered include Frank Lee, Lukas Pool, Mark Olitsky, Noah Cline, Adam Hurt, Nora Brown, RG Hocutt, David Bragger, Rhiannon Giddens, Seth Swingle and collector Jim Bollman, and Chris Coole, Jake Blount, Alison De Groot and Ben Krakauer are all upcoming. Subscribers to either print or online editions also get online access to the last eleven years of back copies, with tabs, accompanying sound files and video links. All that can be found at https://banjonews.com/. Thanks to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan for sharing the show with their customers. Visit their website at https://www.elderly.com/. Don’t miss Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp next year! http://www.earfuloffiddle.com/Support 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.