Episode 55: Hilarie Burhans (Queen of Burhania)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is clawhammer banjoist, restaurateur, and queen of Burhania, Hilarie Burhans. We recorded this episode at the Brandywine Revival Festival, and I’m really excited for you to hear it! Hilarie is one of my very favorite humans; she’s charming and generous and hilarious, and I think she’s responsible in no small part for the quality of the culture of Old Time Music, which is mostly why I play, so I feel a lot of gratitude and respect for her. Oh, and Hilarie Burhans is badass at the banjo. She’s one of the best. Her rhythm is unstoppable, her tone is incredible, and the way she adapts fiddle melodies to the banjo, I think, makes her one of the musically wisest players in the old time community. You have to have a real insight into what makes a tune special to make it sing on the banjo the way Hilarie can.   Buy Hotpoint Stringband’s albums: http://www.hotpointstringband.com/music/4590975104  Follow Sugar Pie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janehilariekelliesabra/  Buy Sugar Pie’s album A Message From Home: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sugarpie2#  Subscribe to Hilarie’s youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/clawhammerlady  Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool  Tunes we’ll play: Cumberland Gap Avalon Quickstep Squirrel Hunters Jeff Sturgeon Missing You All the Way Home Bonus Track: Jane and Hilarie’s Tune