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 Yorkshire), West Clare, Sligo, 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
I tried recording some tunes, and they are all on this page: http://slainte.web.infoseek.co.jp/sound_e.html
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: 479
| The Fairy | jig | May 31st 2008 |
| All White In Monaghan | reel | May 15th 2008 |
| Cluain Ard | reel | May 11th 2008 |
| JP Daly's | jig | April 19th 2008 |
| Barrel Rafferty's | jig | April 9th 2008 |
| The Rusty Gun | April 2nd 2008 |
| Alick C MacGregor | May 4th 2007 |
| Carol-Anne's Reel | September 27th 2005 |
| Dougal's Sustain | August 20th 2005 |
| Ashley's Strathspey | January 27th 2005 |
| 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 |
| Sean-nós dancer Seosamh Ó Neachtain on TG4 | March 15th 2008 |
| Fiddle Music from Leeds | January 21st 2008 |
| Staccato vs. Legato | August 5th 2007 |
| Tapping Feet | July 30th 2007 |
| Why are there so many lefty flute players? | July 22nd 2007 |
| Tunes | The Star of Munster | July 6th 2008 |
| Tunes | Old Walls of Liscarroll | July 6th 2008 |
| Tunes | C: Brendan Tonra | July 6th 2008 |
| Tunes | Delaney's (aka. Port TÃneatha) | July 6th 2008 |
| Tunes | McCarthy's | July 3rd 2008 |
