Episode 197: Eric Schweizer (Old Time Fiddlers Associations, Bluegrass, and Trad Music Commitment Issues)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Eric Schweizer! We recorded this over 6 feet apart, with masks, outside my home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes in this episode: Soppin’ the Gravy Fisher’s Hornpipe Cincinnati Maple Sugar Salt Spring Cherokee Shuffle Bonus track: Happy Hollow/Walking Back to Texas Visit The Oly Mountain Boys’ website and preorder their new album! https://olymountainboys.com/ Like and Follow The Oly Mountain Boys on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OlyMountainBoys/ Sign up for Earful of Fiddle’s June 21-26 virtual music and dance camp at http://www.earfuloffiddle.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Get a Get Up in the Cool t shirt and phone case! https://teespring.com/new-get-up-in-the-cool-swag Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series! Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/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.