Episode 320: Megan Lynch Chowning (Contest Fiddling, the Pleasure of Teaching, and The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Megan Lynch Chowning. We recorded this in August at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson in Nashville, TN. Tunes in this episode: Forked Deer (1:12) Leather Britches (15:35) St. Anne’s Reel (38:18) John Rice (Hartford) (58:40) Tennessee Politics (Hartford) (1:19:34) Bonus track: Whiskey Before Breakfast Visit Megan’s website at https://www.fiddlestar.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/fiddlestar/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/fiddlestarmusic FiddleVideo.com https://www.fiddlevideo.com/ The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project: https://www.hartfordprojecttour.com/ Nashville Acoustic Camps: https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.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/ Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.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.