Episode 278: Kate O'Brien (Teaching and Learning the Fiddle)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kate O’Brien. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes and songs in this episode: Polly Put the Kettle On (0:38) Pretty Little Widow (13:12) Snake Chapman’s Tune (31:43) Uncle Charlie Barnett Lowe’s Tune (49:37) Old Chattanooga (58:11) Bonus track: Gilsaw Mosaic String Academy: https://www.mosaicstringacademy.com/ Portland Fiddle Camp: https://www.portlandfiddlecamps.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/ 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.