How'd you find highlander radio?

[MDF3530]

Quote (Aon_Daonna @ May 21 2003,9:32)

huhu =) Well it's some time ago.. when did I join the forum? On the same day I as I found this station.. I was browsing through Live365 or the Shoutcast pages and found it and thought i'd join in...

Welcome back, Aon!!!

[aklassie]

Welcome back we've Aon we've missed you!!!!!!!

[Crebain]

Don't remember exactly but I think I first heard about the Highlander Radio was when someone wrote about it in the Celtic Cafe mailing list.

[brettzky42]

Gaelic Bread was telling me about it for months. I finally got the chance to check it out and now I'm addicted:

Hello, my name's Brett and I'm a Celtaholic....

[scottish2]

Well welcome to our little family of Celtic lovers brettzky42

[CelticRadio]

Wow, this is great information to know and very interesting to read. You might ask, what exactly inspired Paul to create Highlander Radio in the first place?

I went to a Highland Game in September 1999 (Loon Mountain, NH) and I was so taken away with it all that when I got home I wanted to listen to some Celtic music, like at the Games, on the internet. Well, didn't find too much at the time.

Well, I finally located some great music at mp3.com and since I had kids I became particularly interested in some of the beautiful Scottish ballads like "Come by the Hills" and "Ar hyd y nos". One in particular was a little 11 year old girl from N.H. that was a wonderful singer that really got me interested in some of the Gaelic songs. Kinda sad part of the story as my daughter and I use to follow her website until she passed away February 4, 2000.

So in the Spring of 2000 I was trying to think of a website project that would combine my musical interests (I play the keyboard), programming interests, my newly found Interest in my heritiage, and the beautiful Celtic musicians and music that I had discovered. Hence was born "The Scottish Highlander" website with a total of 5 listener slots streaming at 8kps on my newly setup computer server which had been running as game server.

I think the best thing about running the website and station is all of the nice people I have met here in the forum and in the emails I receive.

Well, just thought I would share a little background on the site and station!

[MDF3530]

I really discovered the beauty of Celtic music when my sister was getting married. The song that she and my brother-in-law had for their first dance was Irish Wedding Song by the Irish Rovers.

[Knightly Knight]

I[COLOR=blue] found Highlander Radio over a yr ago doing a search on any thing Scottish or Celtic and found the Station. As you may see in another post my sound card is sick (shhhhhh} Its actually dead. Im not sure if it knows. On a really bad day I crank up Hilander Radio, sometims make a request and let the music "wash" my cares away. Thats my prescription for what ails ya.

PS since finding Highlander Ive learned several Celtic tunes to add to my repertorie. I sing, play guitar, and write songs. All of the Celtic tunes
are done in flatpicking style to add the charm and authenticityof the original pieces