My name is Hiroyuki Yamada. It might sound exotic, but actually it's a quite common/dull name in Japan. Some Irish people call me Kieran, or Hiro. I regret choosing a bit silly site name here, but I think it's too late to change it now.
I started listening to tradional Scottish/Shetland music in 1999 and then Irish stuff a few months later. After travelling around in Ireland in 2000, I started fancying playing music. In 2002 I picked up a whistle in Edinburgh while studying in the university there as an exchange student. Having learned and played Irish tunes in Leeds, West Clare, Sligo, London, and some other places, my love of Scottish folk music has never changed. Currently playing a wooden flute as well. It's Mark Hoza's keyless D: http://www.woodenflutemaker.com/DFlutes.html
Here's a sound clip of my playing northern reels: http://slainte.web.infoseek.co.jp/monaghan.mp3
And a nice photo with "Ptarmigan" on the fiddle in Antrim in March, 2006: http://slainte.web.infoseek.co.jp/antrim1.JPG
Some of my favourite recordings are:
James Carty "Upon My Soul" (flute)
Harry Bradley, Jesse Smith, and John Blake "The Tap Room Trio" (flute & fiddle with guitar or piano)
"Angelina Carberry & Martin Quinn" (banjo & box)
Claire Keville "The Daisy Field" (concertina & fiddle)
Johnny Connolly "An Mileodean Scaoilte" (melodeon)
Ronan Browne & Peter O'Loughlin "Touch Me If You Dare" (pipes and fiddle)
Fred Morrison "The Sound of the Sun" (border pipes & low whistle)
Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley "Mither o' the Sea" (fiddle with guitar or piano)
Karine Polwart "Fairest Floo'er" (vocals with guitar or piano)
"The Best of Ossian"
Currently back home in Japan and occasionally joining a couple of regular sessions in Tokyo. I tell you the sessions here aren't bad! But I admit I still miss friends and music in Leeds.
Tunes in slainte's tunebook: 513
| Neil Gow's Highland | reel | March 7th 2010 |
| The Wrecking | reel | February 7th 2010 |
| Eddie Moloney's | reel | January 24th 2010 |
| Neilidh O'Boyle's Highland | strathspey | January 22nd 2010 |
| Mick's Delight | jig | December 14th 2009 |
| The Back Of The Change House | February 13th 2010 |
| Kitty In The Lane (J. Doherty Tune) | November 23rd 2009 |
| Down The Meadow | January 4th 2009 |
| Carol-Anne's Reel | December 25th 2008 |
| Ashley's Strathspey | October 15th 2008 |
| Music In Exile: A Celebration Of Comhaltas In Leeds | Leeds CCE | June 8th 2008 |
| Humours Of Highgate | John Blake, Lamond Gillespie And Mick Leahy | May 26th 2008 |
| No Trouble At All | Noel Lenaghan | April 12th 2008 |
| Sarah McFadyen And Kris Drever | Sarah McFadyen And Kris Drever | April 9th 2008 |
| Return To Droim | Colm Gannon | August 30th 2006 |
| Foot Stompin' Internet Radio | November 23rd 2004 |
| Davy Spillane | June 6th 2004 |
| Fiddle Music of Donegal | April 20th 2003 |
| The Shamrock | January 2nd 2003 |
| Custy's - Session Videos | March 15th 2010 |
| www.tradmusic.com | October 5th 2008 |
| A must read thread posted in 2003 | September 25th 2008 |
| Some say the younger generation can't play this music right. | August 21st 2008 |
| Twin Fiddles | August 12th 2008 |
| Tunes | Eileen Curran | March 15th 2010 |
| Discussions | Custy's - Session Videos | March 15th 2010 |
| Tunes | Sorry, try this link | March 15th 2010 |
| Tunes | March 15th 2010 | |
| Tunes | March 15th 2010 |
