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Eileen is hailed as one of the great innovators and pioneers in the Celtic and World music genres.

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Fiddle Champion Eileen Ivers

I love to show those parallels even in our show, and play a little bluegrass mixed Irish and show a tune morphed from an Irish reel into a bluegrass tune, and you know, something – you know, when we play in Virginia it’s always great because the folks really get it there, and it’s, it’s always a sort of homecoming in a way, playing around there, for sure.

So now when we go over and play what we play in Ireland, it’s just embraced in a great, great way, that there’s such pride that the music has gone out and made these rounds, if you will, and has survived and thrived, and new players are playing it and have open minds and can sit next to a Turkish musician and find things in common [laughs] you know is something great – so, it’s – sorry for the long answer, but it’s – it’s interesting I think that the audiences now have, I think, changed through the years and um, really become wonderful, openminded audiences that just really, you know – you feel them. They just are proud that here’s this Yankee American, you know, and played the music, and maybe

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In the 1970s, fiddler Eileen Ivers, prize pupil of Limerick teacher Martin Mulvihill, was an unbeatable fleadh competitor. In the 1980s she was a founding member of Cherish the Ladies and performed with Mick Moloney’s Green Fields of America troupe. In the ‘90s, she formed a recording and touring partnership with English-born button accordion ace John Whelan, who was then living in New York, and starred in Riverdance on Broadway. In more recent years, she has fronted her own band, Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul, a musically eclectic group that includes two other worthy traditional players in button accordionist Buddy Connolly and fiddler/guitarist/trumpet player Matt Mancuso.

Cherish the Ladies [Siobhán Egan, fiddle ; Joanie Madden, flute ; Bridget Fitzgerald ; Cathie Ryan, singer ; Maureen Kennelly, dancer ; Mary Coogan, guitar ; Eileen Golden, dancer ; Mairéad Powell, dancer ; Eileen Ivers, fiddle

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Eileen Ivers will change the way you think about the violin.

Grammy awarded, Emmy nominated, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, guest starred with over 50 orchestras, original Musical Star of Riverdance, Nine Time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, Sting, Hall and Oates, The Chieftains, 'Fiddlers 3' with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Regina Carter, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, Steve Gadd, founding member of Cherish the Ladies, movie soundtracks including “Gangs of New York”, performed for Presidents and Royalty worldwide…this is a short list of accomplishments, headliners, tours, and affiliations. Fiddler Eileen Ivers has established herself as the pre-eminent exponent of the Irish fiddle in the world today.

It is a rare and select grade of spectacular artists whose work is so boldly imaginative and clearly virtuosic that it alters the medium. It has been said that the task of respectfully exploring the traditions and progression of the Celtic fiddle is quite literally on Eileen Ivers' shoulders. The Washington Post states, "She suggests the future of the Celti