Episode 396: Church for Dogs (New Converts to Contra Dance)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of my new contra dance band, Church for Dogs! Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Isham Monday’s Fire on the Mountain (0:58) Halifax (22:05) Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins (36:02) Polly Put the Kettle On (1:03:04) The Old Yeller Dog Went Trotting Through the Meetinghouse (1:14:01) Bonus Track: Leland’s Waltz Follow Church for Dogs on Instagram and follow Kate Gregory, Jonathan Craig Roberts, and Cameron DeWhitt Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram 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.