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:
Harry Bradley "As I carelessly Did Stray..." (flute with fiddles, guitar, and piano)
Claire Keville, John Weir & Eithne Nà Dhonaile "An Trà is a Rian" (concertina, fiddle and harp)
Angelina Carberry "An Traidisiún Beo" (banjo with box, guitar, and harp)
John Blake, Lamond Gillespie, and Mick Leahy "Traditional Irish Music from London" (flute, fiddle, and bouzouki)
Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley "Mither o' the Sea" (fiddle, guitar, piano with banjo, concertina. etc)
J. Wrigley, A. Henderson, J. Legge, & S. Wright "Birlin' Fiddles" (3 fiddles and guitar)
Patsy Reid "With Complements" (fiddle with piano, harp, guitar)
Fred Morrison "The Sound of the Sun" (border pipes, low whistle, uillean pipes with fiddle, bouzouki, guitar)
Now I have a website of Irish and Scottish music at http://slainte.web.infoseek.co.jp/home_en.html
Be sure to check the links on the Downloads page: http://slainte.web.infoseek.co.jp/downloads_en.html
Currently back home in Japan and occasionally joining a couple of regular sessions in Tokyo. I tell you the sessions here are as good as any in Ireland! But I admit I still miss the Irish people and music in Leeds: http://www.travellersinleeds.co.uk/_travellers/JohnRooneyRecording.html
Tunes in slainte's tunebook: 502
| My Dancing Bride | hornpipe | July 30th 2009 |
| The Silver Tree | reel | July 20th 2009 |
| New Year's Eve | reel | June 30th 2009 |
| Miss Wallace | reel | May 22nd 2009 |
| The Green Shades Of Gask | jig | May 10th 2009 |
| Down The Meadow | January 4th 2009 |
| Carol-Anne's Reel | December 25th 2008 |
| Ashley's Strathspey | October 15th 2008 |
| London Clog | October 5th 2008 |
| I'm A Little Dutch Girl | October 4th 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 |
| 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 |
| Sean-nós dancer Seosamh Ó Neachtain on TG4 | March 15th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: best 'modern' tunes | November 20th 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: Sonny Murray – An Inspiration! | November 20th 2009 |
| Discussions | Re: Susato high D (sb) | November 16th 2009 |
| Tunes | November 15th 2009 | |
| Tunes | The Cat that Ate the Candle | November 14th 2009 |
