Episode 368: Laura Risk (Québécois Fiddle)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Laura Risk. We recorded this at the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling Camp in the Santa Cruz mountains. Tune in this episode: Grondeuse à Elzéar (1:33) Hommage à Gaston Nolet (17:30) Eva’s Tune (36:24) Charlie Drody's (49:23) Fleur de Mandragore (53:19) Bonus Track: Reel St. Jean Visit Laura Risk’s website and buy her new album Traverse See Tall Poppy String Band on our Mid-Atlantic tour! Sign up for Cameron’s Fall Old Time Songs Banjo Workshop Series Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band 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.