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

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Keala Venema. We recorded this last week in Lansing, Michigan.
Tune in this episode:
* Texas (1:04)
* Candy Girl (16:39)
* Cluck Old Hen (33:58)
* Julianne Johnson (39:52)
* Billy in the Lowground (44:38)
* Bonus Track: Big Scioty
Follow Keala Venema on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kealavenema/)
and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070188200872)
Visit her band Whorled’s website (https://www.whorledband.com/)
Michigan Academy of Folk Music (https://www.mifolkmusic.com/)
If you’re an adult learning the fiddle, you want to have fun joining in and making music. Take the guesswork out of it with AltStrings Academy! Live classes with National Scottish fiddle champion Caroline McCaskey and other master instructors. Over 400 on-demand lessons in technique, chop and groove, how to learn by ear, ergonomics, and more. Upcoming live workshop May 11 on key rhythmic bowing patterns of Old-Time fiddle with Karen Celia Heil.
Ready to love the way you sound? Visit AltStringsAcademy.com to join today! (https://altstrings-academy.mn.co/)
Sign up for my workshop series Music Theory for Old Time (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store)
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool)
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/)
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons)
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/)
and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)