058: Michael Roddy of Arise & Go, Album Review - Meeting Place

<p>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. </p> <p> </p> <p>Tune into this episode to hear Michael say, "I almost needed a change of pants..." </p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to things that came up during the interview: </p> <p>The poem that inspired the band name:</p> <p><a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree'>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree</a></p> <p>Arise & Go's Bandcamp page, (go buy the album!) </p> <p><a href='https://ariseandgo.bandcamp.com/album/meeting-place'>https://ariseandgo.bandcamp.com/album/meeting-place</a></p> <p>Michael's personal website, for info on instruction, tunebooks, etc </p> <p><a href='https://michaelroddymusic.com/about/'>https://michaelroddymusic.com/about/</a></p> <p>The Arise & Go website (go get a physical copy of the album and other great stuff!) </p> <p><a href='https://ariseandgo.org/store/'>https://ariseandgo.org/store/</a></p> <p>The Càirdeas workshop where Michael will be teaching this summer:</p> <p><a href='https://www.cairdeas.org/'>https://www.cairdeas.org/</a></p> <p>And the Pipers Gathering in Connecticut, where he'll also be teaching: </p> <p><a href='https://www.pipersgathering.org/'>https://www.pipersgathering.org/</a></p> <p>Arise & Go has some excellent content on YouTube: </p> <p><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2YKE2Knso'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2YKE2Knso</a></p> <p>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: </p> <p><a href='https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e21'>https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e21</a></p> <p>-</p> <p>We're on Facebook:<a href='https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast'> https://www.facebook.com/DroningOnPodcast</a></p> <p>And