Hello. My name is Hiroyuki Yamada. Some of you may find it exotic, but actually it's a quite common/dull name in Japan. I used to be an art history student and still in between a beginner and intermediate player of the Irish and Scottish traditional music.
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 as an exchange student in the university there. Though occasionally joining workshops in Co. Clare and having learned and played mostly Irish tunes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, my love of Scottish folk music has never changed.