Episode 325: Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer (Social Singing and Centering Youth in Traditional Music)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Chris Bracken and Nicole Singer. We recorded this two weekends ago at Raise the Rafters Traditional Song Weekend in Rhododendron, OR. Songs in this episode: Cape Cod Girls (1:20) Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron (18:44) Bright Morning Stars (29:38) Rattlin’ Bog (52:16) Three Jolly Fisherman (58:17) Bonus track: Pleasant and Delightful Registration opens December 1st for Youth Trad Song Weekend: https://www.youthtradsong.org/ Raise the Rafters: https://rtrsong.org/ Traditional Music Today: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tradmusictoday Buy Nicole’s records: https://nicolesinger.com/ Love old-time music, dance, art, & craft? Immerse yourself in Appalachian culture at the beautiful John C. Campbell Folk School. Located in Western North Carolina, we offer weeklong & weekend classes in old-time music, instrument building, woodworking, fiber arts, blacksmithing, cooking, gardening, pottery and much much more! www.folkschool.ORG to see our full catalog of classes, or 1-800-FOLK-SCH to register. 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/