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Get Up in the Cool — 535 episodes

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Episode 524: Tim Cape (Tunes that Speak to Us)

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Episode 523: Leather Britches (Eleanor Chen and Andy Ferrell)

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Episode 522: Forsyth (Isn’t a Cult)

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Episode 521: NoaBass (Old Time Bass)

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(episode 521 will be slightly delayed)

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Episode 520: Hayden Stern (Classic Tunes for the Post-Yearning Era)

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Episode 519: Jordan Wankoff (Learning and Teaching Traditional Music and Writing Tipping Back the Corn)

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Episode 518: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 4)

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Episode 517: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 3)

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Episode 516: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 2) (FIXED AUDIO)

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Episode 515: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 1)

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Request For Upcoming Call Up In The Cool 10 Year Anniversary Edition

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Episode 514: Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser (of The Ridge Ramblers)

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Episode 513: Justin Golden (Blues Guitar and Old Time Banjo)

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Episode 512: Sweeten the Third (Banjo and Flatfooting) (see show notes for supercut of dancing)

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Episode 511: Miriam Hacksaw (Malayali Tunes, Political Music, and Liberatory Spirituality)

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Episode 510: Tall Poppy String Band (Tunes You Can Jam from our Second Album)

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Episode 509: Sasha Stolasz (Cool Fiddle Moms and Learning from YouTube)

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Episode 508: Simon Chrisman (Hammered Dulcimer)

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Episode 507: Devon Léger (Music Journalism and Publicity for Traditional Music)

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Episode 506: Isabelle Kirk (Women in Old Time)

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Episode 505: Probably Polly String Band (Folk Punk, Playing for Square Dances, How to Start an Old Time Scene)

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Episode 504: Portland Pub Sing (Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, Jonathan Lay)

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Episode 503: Sandol Astrausky (Fiddles Are Scary, Jeff Todd Titon, and Teaching Old Time Music)

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Episode 502: Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers (Old Time Music in Illinois)

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Episode 501: Phoebe Sanders (Banjo, Limberjacks, and Jig Dolls)

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Episode 500: Frank Fairfield (The Theoretical, The Practical, and the Poetical)

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Episode 499: Kenny Feinstein (Punk to Old Time Pipeline)

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Episode 498: Tommy Schulz (Settings-Based Music and Shonen Irish Ballads)

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Episode 497: Caleb & Reeb (Writing in Idiom and the Limits of Genre)

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Episode 496: Evan Coombs (Green Day, Maritime Folk, and Hiking the AT)

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Episode 495: Sophie Enloe (Writing New Old Time Tunes)

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Episode 494: Sparrow Smith (Writing in the Old Time Idiom)

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Episode 493: Call Up in the Cool No. 8

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Episode 492: Sue Truman (The Crankie Factory)

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Episode 491: Annie and Ellie Davis (ETSU, Learning from Source Recordings, and Old Time Ownership)

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Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka)

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Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams)

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Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor)

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Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth)

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Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle)

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Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow)

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Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest)

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Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar)

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Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller)

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Episode 481: Lillian Sawyer (Agendaless Music)

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Episode 480: Eros Faulk (Living in Portland and Playing Irish Tunes Without Sets)

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Episode 479: Golden Shoals (Live at Old Growth Old Time w/ Special Guest Host Doreen Ditties of Tradwife)

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Episode 478: Devin Champlin (Georgia Tunes, Corny Rags, and Cowboy Fantasies)

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Episode 477: George Jackson (The Old Time 100 Vol. 2 and Making Art with Fiddle Tunes)

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Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing)

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Episode 475: Wila Frank (Old Time Music Grounding)

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Episode 474: Anna RG (Old Time Ballads, Community, and Disability in Traditional Music)

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Episode 473: Greta Hazilla (Scottish and Irish Fiddle)

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Episode 472: Call Up in the Cool No. 7

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Episode 471: Morgan Harris (Old Time Fiddle)

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Episode 470: Joe Moore (Stringband Class with the Canotes and Learning Instruments on a Whim)

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Episode 469: Ben Nelson (Live at Earful of Fiddle, feat. Becky Hill)

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Episode 468: Humbletown (Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag)

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Episode 467: Emily Doebler (Earful of Fiddle, Arts Funding, and Floor Kicking)

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Episode 466: Evie Ladin (Music Is to Do)

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Episode 465: Gray Dawson (Teaching Traditional Music and Addressing Disability at Festivals and Camps)

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Episode 464: Ruby John (Indigenous Identity and Fiddling)

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Episode 463: Afton Coombs (Flatfooting)

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Episode 462: Lazy Susan (Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke)

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Episode 461: Richie & Rosie (Live from Inside the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 1953 Packard Clipper)

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Episode 460: Bruce Ling (Sharing Music and Energy feat. Austin Benzing)

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Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)

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Episode 458: Micah Ling (Dressing Tradition)

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Episode 457: Gray Buchanan (Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend and Original Tunes from Friends)

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Episode 456: Joseph Decosimo (Shiny New Tunes and Human Limits)

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Episode 455: SunFish Duo (Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish)

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Episode 454: Kristina R. Gaddy (Early Black American Fiddle and Banjo Music)

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Episode 453: Brian Dolphin (Writing Original Tunes)

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Episode 452: Shanice Richards (Jamaican Church, The Little Mercies, and Old Time with Somethin’ Sassy)

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Episode 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt)

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Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs)

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Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard)

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Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance)

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Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens)

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Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)

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Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs)

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Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity)

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Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling)

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Episode 442: Heather Blackbird (Unaccompanied Ballad Singing)

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Episode 441: Whiskey Deaf (Annie Staninec and John Kael)

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Episode 440: Richard Melling & Karen McCracken (Old Time Duet Singing)

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Episode 439: Benny Bleu and Titus Stevens (Old Time in Upstate New York)

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Episode 438: Dan Leif (Old Time Music in Portland, Oregon)

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Episode 437: Call Up in the Cool No. 6

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Episode 436: Joe Pomianek (Old Time Flatpicking Guitar and Mandolin)

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Episode 435: Countercurrent (Original Tunes and Writing Anti-Capitalist Folk Music)

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Episode 434: A Very Church for Dogs Christmas (with Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts)

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Episode 433: Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn (Original Tunes, Galico Tuning, and Old Time Cello)

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Episode 432: Brandon Godman (Buying Violins for a Living, Groovy Fiddling, and Writing Original Tunes)

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Episode 431: Omar Ruiz-Lopez (with special guest Jason Krivo Flores)

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Episode 430: Irene Herrmann (Old Time Mandolin and Fiddle and The Harmony Sisters)

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Episode 429: Forrest Carroll (Old Time for Oneself)

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Episode 428: Sadie Gustafson-Zook (Old Time Fiddle and Songwriting)

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Episode 427: Morgan Harris (Alone Will Tell)

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Episode 426: Call Up in the Cool No. 5

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Episode 425: Hildaland (Louise Bichan and Ethan Setiawan)

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Episode 424: Bex Bee and Will Jevne (Old Growth Old Time)

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Episode 423: Tristan Scroggins (The Old Time 100)

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Episode 422: Maggie Lind (Teaching Old Time, Banjo Tunes, and Women Banjoists)

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Episode 421: Adam Hinkel (Black Sheep Banjos)

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Episode 420: Mark Olitsky (Changing as a Musician)

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Episode 419: Zach Meyer (Old Time in Seattle and Boston)

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Episode 418: Joe Z. Johnson (Black Banjo Scholar)

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Episode 417: Jesse Milnes (Growing Up Old Time in West Virginia)

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Episode 416: Sophie Wellington (Melodic Old Time Guitar)

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Episode 415: Scott Prouty (West Virginia Crookedness, Melvin Wine’s Birthday, and Writing Tunes)

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Episode 414: Justin Robinson (German Influence and Old Time Down the Mountain)

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Episode 413: Nathan Vargo (Diva Fiddling and Flatfooting)

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Episode 412: Alice Gerrard (Luther Davis' Fiddling, Tommy Jarrell's Potato Soup, and Identity Movements in Old Time)

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Episode 411: Earl White (Green Grass Cloggers and Spreading the Old Time Gospel)

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Episode 410: Collin Stackhouse (Friend with a Podcast Tax and Health Care for All Oregon)

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Episode 409: Call Up in the Cool No. 4

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Episode 408: Northern Resonance (with Tall Poppy String Band)

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Episode 407: Steve Rosen (Banjo Whimsy)

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Episode 406: Smack Young Walser (Sweet-tooth Fiddling)

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Episode 405: Bobcat Opossum (Tune Scavengers)

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Episode 404: Calvin Woodring (Old Time Harmonica)

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Episode 403: Lillian Werbin (Elderly Instruments)

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Episode 402: Sweet Milk and Peaches (Midwestern Schottisches, Polkas, and Jigs)

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Episode 401: Keala Venema (Old Time Fiddle, Shamisen, and Chatting with Instruments)

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Episode 400: Emily Mann (Relaxed, Notey, G Tunes and Nashville Spring Distractions)

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Episode 399: Ian Desiderio (Old Time Jam Democracy)

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Tomorrow's episode will be delayed until midday; sorry!

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Episode 398: Noa (Bowing Bass and Physical Melodies)

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Episode 397: The Carolina Rose (Caroline Oakley and Rose Minkler)

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

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Episode 395: Kaden Hurst (Mandolin's Place in Old Time, Gender in Ballads, and Making a Nice Sound)

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Episode 394: Hal Cannon (Old Time in Utah and Cowboy Music)

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Episode 393: Kendl Winter (Banjo Mantras)

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Episode 392: Hayden Stern (Blasphemy and Hot Nonsense)

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Episode 391: Adam Roszkiewicz (Old Time Tunes on Finger-style Guitar)

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Episode 390: Call Up in the Cool No. 3

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Episode 389: Matthew Lynn (Banjo Maker)

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Request for questions and tune requests!

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Episode 388: Miriam Hacksaw and Rye (Old Time and Samba)

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Episode 387: The Canote Twins (with Larry Edelman)

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Episode 386: Nadine Landry & Stephen "Sammy" Lind (Old Time in Quebec and Foghorn Stringband)

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Episode 385: Lillian Sawyer and Patrick Gunning (All Joy, No Wisdom)

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Episode 384: Nate Calkins (Banjo Maker)

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Episode 383: Countercurrent (Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay)

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Episode 382: River & Annie (Old Time in Olympia, WA)

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Episode 381: Evan Snoey (NW Fiddling, Playing for Dances, and Fiddle Tunes on Saxophone)

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Episode 380: Isabel Dammann (Creativity in Tradition)

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Episode 379: Neil Pearlman (TradCafe Crossover)

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Episode 378: Morgan Harris (Old Time Backup Guitar)

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Episode 377: Jonathan Vocke (Two-Finger Banjo, Fiddle, and the Subdivision Train)

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Episode 376: Neal Pressley (Raising an Old Time Community)

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Episode 375: Call Up in the Cool No. 2

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Episode 374: Mark Graham (Old Time Harmonica)

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Episode 373: Tristan Clarridge (Old Time Cello)

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Send in your tune requests and questions for Call Up in the Cool No. 2!

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Episode 372: Natalie Haas (Old Time Cello)

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Episode 371: Rachel Baiman (John Hartford, Fiddle Camp Kids, and Commercial Validation)

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Episode 370: Evie Ladin (Body Music, Banjo, and Fiddling for Fun)

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Episode 369: Dante & Eros Faulk (In Person at Valley of the Moon)

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Episode 368: Laura Risk (Québécois Fiddle)

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Episode 367: Suzy Thompson (Cultural Appropriation and Extraction, Women in Old Time, and the BOTMC)

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Episode 366: Erica Weiss (Old Time Guitar)

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Episode 365: Drew Najor (Old Time in Michigan, Pretty Shaky String Band, and Age in Fiddle Tune Titles)

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Episode 364: Liz Pickard (Old Time Guitar)

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Episode 363: Hills of Belgium (Jérémie Fraboni and Lorcan Fahy)

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Episode 362: Sam & Charlie Sheie (Old Time Fiddle and Guitar)

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Episode 361: Finn Tobias (Flatpicking Old Time Tunes)

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Episode 360: Nora Brown & Steph Coleman (Old Time in NYC and Chicago)

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Episode 359: Athena McKown (Cotillions, Hand-Me-Down Fiddles, and Barbed Wire Radios)

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Episode 358: Shohei Tsutsumi (Melorhythmic Guitar and Lap Dulcimer)

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Episode 357: Call Up in the Cool No. 1

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Episode 356: Brooks Masten (Banjo Making and Custom Ordered Happiness)

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Episode 355: Kate Kerr (Pretty Shaky String Band, Authenticity, and Old Time in Colorado)

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Call in episode announcement and request for questions!

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Episode 354: Needle & Thread (Ella and Maddy Zuellig)

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Episode 353: George Jackson (The Old Time 100)

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Episode 352: Alan Murray and Andrew Finn Magill (Trad Music Mythology and Old Time Curious Bouzouki)

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Episode 351: Six Dollar String Band (Traditional Trance Music)

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Episode 350: Adrian Gross (Slocan Ramblers, John Hartford's Windows, and the Gifts of a Small Scene)

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Episode 349: The Arcane Ramblers (Old Time in Taos, NM)

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Episode 348: Tone Dog (Old Time in Durango, CO)

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Episode 347: Kate Gregory (Claiming Old Time Status, Hiking Social Hierarchy, and the Ministry of Folk)

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Episode 346: Jhana Allan (Old Time, Romanian Music, and Songwriting)

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Episode 345: Sweater Weather String Band (The Cascadia Book of Fiddle Tunes)

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Episode 344: Flynn Cohen (Edden Hammons, Irish Music, and Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes)

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Episode 343: Tray Wellington (Bluegrass Banjo and Oppositional Self Expression)

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Episode 342: Carolyn Kendrick (Old Time Identity vs. Old Time Enjoyment)

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Episode 341: Amelia and Dirk Powell (Making and Sustaining Musical Family)

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Episode 340: Noah VanNorstrand (Playing for Contras and Trad Music Family)

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Episode 339: Cristina Vane (Old Time Banjo, Delta blues, and Songwriting)

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Episode 338: Rachel Krause (Sensitive Missouri Fiddle Tunes, Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp, and Music for the Body)

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Episode 337: Meredith Moon (Folk Revival, Recorded Friends, and Bob Carlin Confidence)

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Episode 336: Corner House (Brighton House, Berklee, and Paths to Old Time Music)

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Episode 335: The Alum Ridge Boys and Ashlee (Old Time Music as Performance)

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Episode 334: Sujata Allan (Sourcing Music from Friends and Naming Tunes After Dogs)

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Episode 333: Karen Dale (Old Time, Irish, and Contra Dance Music)

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Episode 332: Patrick Gunning (Melodic Old Time Guitar, Cittern, and Swedish Fiddle)

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Episode 331: Devin Forest-Hines (Bring Nonchalant Back to Old Time)

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Episode 330: Dave Mount (Old Time Phases, Kentucky Square Bowing, and Learning Fiddle Under Pressure)

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Episode 329: Don Minnerly (Learning from Tommy Jarrell)

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Episode 328: Lillian Sawyer (Leaving Bluegrass for Sparkly Tunes)

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Episode 327: Kendl Winter (Clawhammer and Three-Finger Banjo)

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Episode 326: Maya Whitmont and Melissa Mark (Old Time in the Pacific Northwest)

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

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Episode 324: Mary Garvey (Writing Regional Traditional Songs)

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Episode 323: Jake Loew (MIDI Fiddle Tunes, Old Time Trolling, and Missouri Repertoire)

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Episode 322: Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose (Banjo Identity Crises and Bonus Notes)

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Episode 321: Frank Evans (Clawhammer, Clifftop, and Nashville)

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

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Episode 319: Stillhouse Junkies (Off the Clock Music)

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Episode 318: Bill Meyer (Old Time in the 70's and 80's)

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Episode 317: Daniel Ullom (Old Time Mandolin, Guitar Dads, and Ella Haley)

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Episode 316: Josie Toney (Contra Dance Band Names, Paying Kids for Music, and Whether or Not Fiddling Is Cool)

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Episode 315: Joe Overton (Punk to Old Time Pipeline and Southern Identity)

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Episode 314: Hemlock & Hickory (Dakota Karper and Brendan Hearn)

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Episode 313: Janie Rothfield (Clifftop '22)

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Episode 312: Jerron Paxton (Parable Telling, Palatable Truth, and Raggin' It)

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Episode 311: Cary Lung (Old Time Mandolin, Counterpoint, and Kenny Hall)

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Episode 310: Nic Gareiss (Upbuilding, Pleasure, and Harm Reduction)

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Episode 309: Madeline Levy (feat. Bertram Levy)

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Episode 308: Sophie Wellington (Live at Earful of Fiddle '22)

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Episode 307: Rollie Tussing (Pop Tunes From the 20's and 30's)

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Episode 306: Rachel Reeds (Cape Breton Fiddling)

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Episode 305: Lindsay McCaw (Jolly Tunes)

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Episode 304: Betsy Brown (Fiddle Mentors)

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Episode 303: Alex MacLeod (Melodically Crooked Tunes, Instrument Building, and Square Dance Calling)

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Episode 302: Alan Garren (Grit Rhythm)

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Episode 301: Scott Killops (Old Time Facilitator)

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Episode 300: Bruce Molsky (Conversation without the Encumbrance of Words)

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Episode 299: Kelsey Nelsen (Square Dance Calling, Crankies, and Ballads)

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Episode 298: Morgan Harris (Facebook Live AMA)

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Episode 297: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms (Old Time Country and Mandolin)

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Episode 296: Paul Silveria (The Hidden Curriculum of Square Dance Calling)

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Episode 295: Rachel Baiman (Fiddle Tunes, Love Songs About Songs, and Money vs. Art)

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Episode 294: Joe Pomianek (Old Time Flatpicking Guitar and Mandolin)

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Episode 293: Noa (Old Time Melodic Bass)

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Episode 292: Kate Sheie (Old Time Drive, Punk, DIY, and Musical Parenting)

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Episode 291: Chris Miller (Old Time Tenor Saxophone)

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Episode 290: Maddie Witler (Old Time and Bluegrass Mandolin)

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Episode 289: Betse & Clarke (Ozark Feel and Missouri Rules)

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Episode 288: Eli West (Make Your Normal Different)

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Episode 287: Linnea Spitzer (A tunes, Whiskey Pacts, and Old Time Socializing)

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Episode 286: Alex Sturbaum (The Vashon Sessions, Old Time Accordion, Lift vs. Groove, and Wholesome Chanteys)

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Episode 285: Erik Killops (Portland Trad Music Scenes, Earl White Acolytes, and Bowing for Old Time)

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Episode 284: Tall Poppy String Band (w/ Special Guest Host Jake Blount!)

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Episode 283: Clinton Davis (Kentucky Fiddle Tunes and Missouri Rules)

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Episode 282: Ella Korth (Folk Songs, Flatpicking, and Clawhammer Banjo)

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Episode 281: Dwight Hawkins (Street Performing, Playing the Saw, and Black Stringband and Blues Music)

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Episode 280: Michelle Yu (Tunes with Nothing to Hide Behind)

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Episode 279: Kaden Hurst (Old Time Mandolin, Never Come Down, and Sierra Fiddle Camp)

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Episode 278: Kate O'Brien (Teaching and Learning the Fiddle)

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Episode 277: Get Up in the Yule (with Hog-Eyed Man)

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Episode 276: Emma Swartz and Baron Collins-Hill (Expat Folk Music and Maine Fiddle Camp)

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Episode 275: Keith Billik (The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast / Get Up in the Cool Crossover!)

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Episode 274: Kate Gregory (Old Time and Irish Fiddle)

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Episode 273: Magic Tuber Stringband (Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan)

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Episode 272: Sinner Friends (Country Gospel Music)

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Episode 271: Brandi Waller-Pace, Nelson Williams, and Jake Blount (Old Time Bass, FWAAMfest, and Post-Quarantine Touring)

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Episode 270: George Jackson (Hair & Hide)

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Episode 269: The Wicked Chicken (Gus and Huck Tritsch)

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Episode 268: Anh Phung (Flute in Old Time and Trad Music Code-Switching)

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Episode 267: Tristan Scroggins (Mandolin, IBMA, and Banjo Dads)

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Episode 266: Anna Sandys (Bb Tunes and Violin Making)

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Episode 265: Vivian Williams (Old Time Music from the Pacific Northwest)

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Episode 264: Heidi Kristenson (Banjo Duets)

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Episode 263: River Scheuerell (Playing Banjo on Other Instruments and the Olympia Old Time Community)

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Episode 262: Robyn Burns (Oregon Fiddling and Earl White's Mark on Portland)

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Episode 261: Brian Zimmerman (Midwestern Old Time and Standard A Tunes)

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Episode 260: Lillian and Adam Kology (Making Instruments, Old Time In-Laws, and Boston Thumbs-Up Style)

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Episode 259: Wendy Robinson and Phil Watson (The Harry Smith Frolic and the Legacy of Jon Bekoff)

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Episode 258: Bach Bui and Alex Kramer (G Tunes in F, Treyf Old Time, and Armchair Epidemiology)

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Presents: Basic Folk with Mali Obomsawin

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Episode 257: Em Hammond (Old Time Banjo, Bass, and Flatfooting)

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Episode 256: Nicole Ball and Max Rainwater (Falling on the Melody, One Way or Another)

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Episode 255: Dear Crow (Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay)

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Episode 254: McKain Lakey (Polyphony, Bad-Ass Ladies, and a Full-Circle Hodge-Podge of Joy)

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Episode 253: Palmer T. Lee (Old Time Melodic Three-Finger Banjo)

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Episode 252: Jesse Partridge (Trad Music Barriers, David Kaynor, and Queer Optics)

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Episode 251: String and Shadow (Puppets, Masks, Busking, and Old Time)

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Episode 250: Judy Hyman (The Horseflies, Ithaca Style Old Time, and Inevitable Change in Tradition)

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Episode 249: The Wules (Christina Osborn and Michael Cullinan)

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Episode 248: E.V. Sheldon (Senseless, Post-Rational Love)

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Episode 247: Ethan Hawkins (Old Time Guitar and Fiddle)

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Episode 246: Devon Flaherty (Collecting 78's and Banjo Self-Actualization)

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Episode 245: Casey Murray & Molly Tucker (Writing Original Tunes and Contra Dance Music)

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Episode 244: Gaye Harrison (Selections from Dear Old Illinois)

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Episode 243: Sheila & Jesse (Twin Fiddling)

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Episode 242: Kalia Yeagle (Professing Old Time Music, Asking Better Questions, and the Alaska Fiddle Sound)

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Episode 241: Seth Shumate (Old Time Harmonica)

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Episode 240: Carling Berkhout (Paths to Old Time, Writing Original Tunes, and Musical Identity)

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Episode 239: Sarah Kate Morgan (Mountain Dulcimer)

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Episode 238: Dante and Eros Faulk (Old Time, Celtic, and Original Cello and Fiddle Music)

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Episode 237: Betse and Clarke (The Music in the Water)

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Episode 236: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time Electric Guitar)

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Episode 235: Cameron Knowler (Old Time Sensitive Flatpicker)

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Episode 234: Sophie Wellington (Loves Her Complex)

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Episode 233: Beverly Street String Band (Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington)

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Episode 232: Eden and Lukas Pool (The Ozark Banjo Co.)

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Episode 231: Annie Staninec (The Bluegrass vs. Old Time Dichotomy, Improvisation, and Musical Upbringing)

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Episode 230: Isa Burke (Fiddle Camp, Murder Ballad Discourse, and Choosing a Music Career)

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Episode 229: Alicia Jardine (Clawhammering Swedish Tunes and Queering Traditional Music)

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Episode 228: Ken Kolodner (Hammered Dulcimer)

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Episode 227: Brandon Olszewski (Tradition vs. Evolution and How to Build an Old Time Scene)

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Episode 226: Melissa Takush (Old Time Music Community Building)

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Episode 225: Morgan Harris (Old Time Guitar)

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Episode 224: Kathleen Parks (Bluegrass, Songwriting, and Altruism)

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Episode 223: Molly McBride (Gatekeeping, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Old Time Erotic Fiction)

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Episode 222: Adam Hurt (Gourd Banjo)

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Episode 221: Kaia Kater (Non-Consensual Mentors, The Death Knell of the CD Table, and Overeager Allies)

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Episode 220: Kim Johnson (Playing Banjo with the Great West Virginia Fiddlers)

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Episode 219: Elizabeth LaPrelle (Old Time Ballads)

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Episode 218: The Vox Hunters (Filipin{x/a/o} Music)

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Episode 217: Linda Danielson (Oregon Old-Time Fiddling)

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Episode 216: Karen Celia Heil (Dork Demographics, Visiting the Geezers, and The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention)

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Episode 215: Alex Sturbaum (Newfoundland tunes, Loomings, and Mitch McConnell)

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Episode 214: Rachel Dunaway (Old Time Banjo)

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Episode 213: Ian Boone (Has to Be the Only Person with this Banjo Origin Story)

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Episode 212: Matt Brown (Two-Finger Banjo)

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Episode 211: Leela Grace (Family Bands, Songwriting, and Undoing Bad Music Education)

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Episode 210: Aaron Jonah Lewis (Classic Banjo and Ragtime)

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Episode 209: Grace van't Hof (Pop, Country, and Queerness in the Early 20th Century)

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Episode 208: Maddie Witler (Mandolin in Old Time and Lateral Learning)

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Episode 207: Nicole Singer (Traditional Unaccompanied Singing)

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Episode 206: Rupert Deese (Far Flung Fiddle Contest)

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Episode 205: Tatiana Hargreaves (Music For Others and Music For Yourself)

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Episode 204: Brandi Pace (Decolonizing the Music Room)

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Episode 203: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (Hold Each Other Up)

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Episode 202: Josh Larios (Explains Low-Latency Online Jamming)

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Episode 201: Albin Ekman (Swedish Fiddle Music and Dance)

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Episode 200: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 200! Ft. Rachel Eddy)

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Episode 199: Jake Blount (Spider Tales)

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Episode 198: Tony Mates (Old Time Community Service)

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Episode 197: Eric Schweizer (Old Time Fiddlers Associations, Bluegrass, and Trad Music Commitment Issues)

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How to help/where to donate! Support George Floyd and the protestors in Minneapolis

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Episode 196: Helen Hakanson (Hakanson Family Old Time Matriarch)

338

Episode 195: Ruthie Dornfeld (Likes a Lot of Things)

339

Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Dear Crow (Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay)

340

Episode 194: Collin Stackhouse (Has a New Album and No Tour)

341

Episode 193: Jerry Gallaher (Banjo Playing is Smoke and Mirrors)

342

Episode 192: Ella Korth (Bluegrass Guitar and Clawhammer Banjo)

343

Episode 191: West of Roan (Channing Showalter and Annie Schermer)

344

Episode 190: Joel Brown (Is Over 6 Feet Away, I Promise)

345

Episode 189: Josh Larios (The Gateway Drug to Oldtime, Male Privilege, and Oldtime Etiquette in Digital Spaces)

346

Episode 188: Kate Lichtenstein (Bruce Greene Tunes, Voluntary Recorder Lessons, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering)

347

Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Steptune (Danielle Enblom, Oona Grady, and James Gascoyne)

348

Episode 187: Devon Léger (Acadian Fiddling)

349

Get Up in the Cool Presents: Save the Tour! Andrew Finn Magill (Evolution of Irish & Scottish Fiddletunes in American Music)

350

Episode 186: Kaitlin Chamberlin (Canadian Banjo Players)

351

Episode 185: W.B. Reid and Bonnie Zahnow (Explain West Coast Trad Music in the 70's)

352

Episode 184: Lisa Ornstein (Politcal Organizing, Trad Music Mentors, and Original Tunes)

353

Episode 183: Joe Seamons (NW Folk Music and What You Get When You Give Up Whiteness)

354

Episode 182: Sami Braman (Of The Onlies)

355

Episode 181: Rina Rossi and AJ Srubas (Half of Steam Machine!)

356

Episode 180: The Sassafras Sisters (Live at The Portland Old Time Music Gathering)

357

Episode 179: The Canote Brothers (Teaching Stringband Class, Old Time Community, and The Peculiar Modern Folk Process)

358

Episode 178: Mark Tamsula and Barbara Rosner (SW Pennsylvania Tunes)

359

Episode 177: Jinny Macrae (Old Time Country Songs)

360

Episode 176: Fanny Rose (Kauai Old Time Gathering)

361

Episode 175: Evie Ladin (Live at the Kauai Old Time Gathering 2019)

362

Episode 174: Get Up in the Christmas (with Ellie and Amy Hakanson)

363

Episode 173: Little Missy (Shona Carr and Jane Rothfield)

364

Episode 172: Lone Piñon (Live at the Kauai Old Time Gathering 2019)

365

Episode 171: Hank Bradley (Looking for Geezers in the Hills and Writing New Tunes)

366

Episode 170: Mike Burns (Burns Violins)

367

Episode 169: Randi Leach (Likes Spooky Modal Tunes)

368

Episode 168: Alex Sturbaum (Transatlantic Trad Music)

369

Episode 167: Danielle Enblom (Traditional Irish Dance)

370

Episode 166: Sally Jablonsky and Friends (Live at the Centralia Campout 2019)

371

Episode 165: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Clifftop 2019)

372

Episode 164: Dan Levenson (Live at Centralia Campout 2019)

373

Episode 163: Laurel Premo (Live at Clifftop 2019)

374

Episode 162: Genevieve Koester (Live at the Old Town School of Folk Music)

375

Episode 161: Penka Jane Culevski (Suzuki, Star Trek, and Beating Up Satan)

376

Episode 160: Maggie Shar (Clawhammer Banjo)

377

Episode 159: Coral Nast (Takes an Old Time Fast)

378

Episode 158: Gray Buchanan (Contradancing in Heelys and Trad Dad Music)

379

Episode 157: Brian Lindsay (Contra Dances, Irish Fiddle, and Pop Country)

380

Episode 156: George Jackson (Tune Titles and Tall Poppies)

381

Episode 155: Becky Hill (Has a Dance Basket)

382

Episode 154: Ben Smith (Oldtime Central Can Take You Where You Want to Go)

383

Episode 153: Christine Williams (Fiddle Teacher)

384

Episode 152: Kris Stableford and Bruce Bauman (Live at Earful of Fiddle Music and Dance Camp 2019)

385

Episode 151: Micah Ling (Old Time Cello, Folklore, and Festival Dress)

386

Episode 150: Nic Gareiss (Asking Questions Through the Body)

387

Episode 149: Ruby John (The Fiddle Is Good Medicine)

388

Episode 148: Bill Harlow (All the Kids Are Playing Old Time)

389

Episode 147: Judy Lungren (The Duchess of Stickerville)

390

Episode 146: Collin Stackhouse (Learned to Fiddle in Alaska and Play the Banjo in Antarctica)

391

Episode 145: Jake Blount (Facebook Live AMA)

392

Episode 144: Lewis & Spence (Aren't Bored Yet)

393

Episode 143: Dan Bui (Mandolin, Bluegrass, and How to Not Burnout as a Professional Musician)

394

Episode 142: Carol Skarstad (Old Time Cello)

395

Episode 141: The Vox Hunters (Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi)

396

Episode 140: Julay Brooks (Old Time Backup Guitar)

397

Episode 139: Joe McHugh (Rosin the Bow)

398

Episode 138: Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (Hands on Both Sides)

399

Episode 137: Harry Bolick (The Completely Lost Mississippi Fiddle Tunes)

400

Episode 136: Linnea Spitzer (A Long Circuitous Route)

401

Episode 135: Gary Vann (Traditional Music in Brisbane)

402

Episode 134: Hanna Traynham (Old Time Banjo)

403

Episode 133: Amy Hakanson (Explains What a Nyckelharpa Is)

404

Episode 132: Jesse Partridge (Trad Music and Community in Olympia, WA)

405

Episode 131: Jimmy Rush (Old Time Flatpicker)

406

Episode 130: Robin Fischer (Square Dance Calling)

407

Episode 129: Jamie Fox (Métis Fiddling in the US)

408

Episode 128: Ellie Hakanson (The Importance of Bass Moms, Cute Grandma Tunes, and Rocky Top)

409

Episode 127: Ashlee Watkins and Andrew Small (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018)

410

Episode 126: Jim Childress (Live at Clifftop 2018)

411

Episode 125: Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018)

412

Episode 124: Whoa Mule (Live at Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival 2018)

413

Episode 123: Paul Brown (Live at Mountaingrass 2018)

414

Episode 122: John Reischman and Eli West (Writing Viral Tunes and Australian Wildlife)

415

Episode 121: David Hoffmann (So Uncool it's Cool)

416

Episode 120: Liam Wratten (Can't Choose a Favorite)

417

Episode 119: Rachel Johnston and Trent Arkleysmith (Two if by Sea)

418

Episode 118: Judy and Rod Jones (Saving the Seeds)

419

Episode 117: Jeremy Marcotte (The NC to VIC Old Time Special)

420

Episode 116: Shell Eaves (Old Time Songs)

421

Episode 115: Nara Demasson (Instrument Maker)

422

Episode 114: Flick Law and Jacqui Mckenzie (Old Time Conversion Moments)

423

Episode 113: Craig Woodward (Live at Nimbin Roots Festival)

424

Episode 112: Cat & Clint (Live at Twangadiddlydoo)

425

Episode 111: Gareth Bjaaland (Old Time Fiddling, Australian Slang, and Life in the Circus)

426

Episode 110: Laura Murawski (Had Lots of Teachers)

427

Episode 109: Haakon Oyen (Live at Clifftop 2018)

428

Episode 108: Clara Delfina (Live at Clifftop 2018)

429

Episode 107: Tom MacKenzie (Twin Banjos)

430

Episode 106: Jane Rothfield (Live at Clifftop 2018)

431

Episode 105: Rinn Netherton (Live at Clifftop)

432

Episode 104: Gailanne Amundsen and Shona Carr (Live at Clifftop 2018)

433

Episode 103: Nate Paine (The Fiddling of Jon Bekoff)

434

Episode 102: Kristina Gaddy and Pete Ross (History of the Banjo)

435

Episode 101: Brad Kolodner (Old Time in the Community)

436

Episode 100: Cameron DeWhitt (Episode 100! Ft. Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery)

437

Episode 99: Corey Husic (Gorillas, Birding, and Clyde Davenport Tunes)

438

Episode 98: Leigh Rudner (Cello in Old Time Music)

439

Episode 97: Charlie Walden (Possum's Big Fiddle Show)

440

Episode 96: Ellen and Pete Vigour (Uncle Henry's Favorites)

441

Episode 95: Ida Mae Specker (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)

442

Episode 94: Jason Cade (Half a Hog-Eyed Man)

443

Episode 93: Dara Weiss (Old Time Songs)

444

Episode 92: Joe Troop (Is Friends with a Smelly Old Bear)

445

Episode 91: Riley Calcagno (Wants to Hang Out Backstage)

446

Episode 90: Max Evans (Old Time in Canada, Formational Tunes, and Trendy Vegetables)

447

Episode 89: Molly Tenenbaum (Mystery, Joy, and Old Time Banjo)

448

Episode 88: Armin Barnett (Old Time Sources)

449

Episode 87: Emily Keene (The Golden Age of Traditional Music in Seattle/Old Time Harmonica)

450

Episode 86: Jenny Monfore (Will Homestead for Tunes)

451

Episode 85: Squirrel Butter (Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck)

452

Episode 84: Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers (Old Time Music of Southwestern Pennsylvania)

453

Episode 83: Lyle de Vitry (Old Time Obsession/Excavating Tombs)

454

Episode 82: Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones (A Trip to Dittyville)

455

Episode 81: Bitter Bloom (Domenica Romagni and Morgan Harris)

456

Episode 80: Peter Mawanga (Traditional Music from Malawi)

457

Episode 79: Andy McLeod (A Curated History of Fingerstyle Guitar)

458

Episode 78: Matt Brown (Fiddler! Educator! Producer!)

459

Episode 77: Devin Forest-Hines (Easy to Hear, Hard to Play)

460

Episode 76: Brooks Masten (Banjo Builder)

461

Episode 75: Jess McIntosh (Suzuki/Crooked Tunes/The Gun Control Ads of Yesteryear)

462

Episode 74: Ken Perlman (Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)

463

Episode 73: Charlie Walden (Midwest Fiddling, Old Time Radio, and The Mando Mule)

464

Episode 72: Scott Mathis and Linda Askew (Music from the Tohono O'odham Nation)

465

Episode 71: Joel Brown (Folk Punk, Crooked Tunes, and Community)

466

Episode 70: Chris Dalnodar & Andy McLeod (Live at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival)

467

Episode 69: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House PART II)

468

Episode 68: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House)

469

Episode 67: Candace Showalter (Rockbridge 2017)

470

Episode 66: Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner (Marcus Martin Tunes)

471

Episode 65: William Seeders Mosheim (Maker of Banjos and Tunes)

472

Episode 64: Hen's Teeth (Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager)

473

Episode 63: Hunter Walker (Dulcimer Ambassador)

474

Episode 62: Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Kristian Herner, Lydia Malmqvist (My New Swedish Pals)

475

Episode 61: Chirps Smith (Midwestern Fiddler)

476

Episode 60: John Lane (Missouri Fiddle Tunes)

477

Episode 59: Lucas Pasley (First Hand Tunes)

478

Episode 58: Sonya Badigian (Four Syllables–Hard G)

479

Episode 57: Craig Edwards (Feed Your Loa)

480

Episode 56: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)

481

Episode 55: Hilarie Burhans (Queen of Burhania)

482

Episode 54: Rusty and Nancy Neithammer (Twin Fiddling/Hanging Out with Tommy)

483

Episode 53: Seth Swingle (Old Banjo Tunes in Rare Tunings)

484

Episode 52: Joe Showalter (Tunes from Two Gun Terry)

485

Episode 51: Jake Blount (Reparations)

486

Episode 50: Spencer & Rains (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Fiddle Tunes)

487

Episode 49: Palmer and Greg Loux (Old Time Power Couple/Run of the Mill String Band)

488

Episode 48: Scotty Leach (Keeps Coming Back to Old Time)

489

Episode 47: Patrick Heavner (Pisgah Banjo Co.)

490

Episode 46: Ethan Hawkins (If You're Not Having Fun, You're Not Doing it Right)

491

Episode 45: Kilby Spencer (Old Time Hand-Me-Downs)

492

Episode 44: Mark Simos (The Other Side of Complexity)

493

Episode 43: Spencer Family and Friends (Living Links to the Source)

494

Episode 42: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time in Japan/Appalachian Studies)

495

Episode 41: Tim Rowell (Will Teach You How to Play Banjo)

496

Episode 40: Liana Moskowitz (Whose Music Is This Anyway?)

497

Episode 39: Aaron Olwell (Juggling Traditions)

498

Episode 38: Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee (Old Time Family Band)

499

Episode 37: Sophie Enloe (Portland Old Time Part II)

500

Episode 36: Gabrielle Macrae (Old Time in Portland, OR)

501

Episode 35: Dotty Moore (Suzuki Refugee)

502

Episode 34: Chris Dalnodar (Ragtime Apologist)

503

Episode 33: Jordan Rast (Growing Up Old Time)

504

Episode 32: Carl Baron (The Fiddlers of Central West Virginia)

505

Episode 31: Deb Shebish (Joe Dawson's Fiddle Tunes)

506

Episode 30: Don Stratton (Original Northern Flavor)

507

Episode 29: ‎Ludvig Drevfjäll (Old Time Infatuation)

508

Episode 28: Trip Henderson (Old Time Harmonica)

509

Episode 27: David Deacon (Kentucky Fiddle Tunes)

510

Episode 26: Bertram Levy (Pioneer of Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)

511

Episode 25: Andrew Finn Magill (Live at The Random Tea Room)

512

Episode 24: Gordon Arnold (Old Time Cello)

513

Episode 23: Rachel Eddy (Inclusivity and Jam Etiquette)

514

Episode 22: Alan Kaufman (The Songsmith)

515

Episode 21: Alan Kaufman (The Tunesmith)

516

Episode 20: Stephen Landis (Fiddle Hermit)

517

Episode 19: Alex Lacquement (Old Time Bass)

518

Episode 18: Ron Buchanan (Square Dance Tunes)

519

Episode 17: Jane Rothfield (Chasing the Old Time Muse)

520

Episode 16: Adam Hurt (Early Galax Fiddling)

521

Episode 15: *SEE EPISODE NOTES* Nikos Pappas (Kentucky Fiddling)

522

Episode 14: David Bass (Round Peak Fiddling)

523

Episode 13: Jody Kruskal (Old Time Concertina)

524

Episode 12: Luke Chohany (Baltimore Boys Part II)

525

Episode 11: Alex Kramer (Alex Kramer)

526

Episode 10: Deb Justice (Hammered Dulcimer in Old Time Music)

527

Episode 9: Chris Dalnodar (Sarah Armstrong Tunes)

528

Episode 8: Jake Blount (African American Fiddle Music)

529

Episode 7: Keith McManus (Honorary Mayor of Clifftop, actual Mayor of Greensboro, PA)

530

Episode 6: Brian Slattery (I learned this tune from...)

531

Episode 5: Bach Bui (Mack Blalock Tunes via James Bryan)

532

Episode 4: Ryland Burhans (C Tunes/Is This Tune Racist?)

533

Episode 3: Rachel Junior and Helen Dana La Fleur (Old Time and Bluegrass Vocal Duets)

534

Episode 2: Harry Bolick (Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s)

535

Episode 1: Brad Kolodner (New Takes on Old Tunes)