Michael Roddy is a talented multi-instrumentalist, (several of which are variations of bagpipes,) and instructor who took a good chunk of time to sit down and talk about the recent album from one of his projects, Arise & Go: Meeting Place.

Tune into this episode to hear Michael say, "I almost needed a change of pants..."

Here are links to things that came up during the interview:

The poem that inspired the band name:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree

Arise & Go's Bandcamp page, (go buy the album!)

https://ariseandgo.bandcamp.com/album/meeting-place

Michael's personal website, for info on instruction, tunebooks, etc

https://michaelroddymusic.com/about/

The Arise & Go website (go get a physical copy of the album and other great stuff!)

https://ariseandgo.org/store/

The Càirdeas workshop where Michael will be teaching this summer:

https://www.cairdeas.org/

And the Pipers Gathering in Connecticut, where he'll also be teaching:

https://www.pipersgathering.org/

Arise & Go has some excellent content on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2YKE2Knso

And if you want to dig deeper into old tune collections, here's the episode where Jeremy covers the Patrick McDonald collection which came up toward the end of the interview:

https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e21

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