Eileen Ivers may well be "the future of the Celtic fiddle" (The Washington Post), but she's done pretty well by the past and present too.

With her band Immigrant Soul, Ivers barnstorms concert halls around the world with her updated, world-influenced take on Celtic traditions, which has led The New York Times to dub her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin," while The Boston Globe raved, "Ivers & Immigrant Soul rock the house...(with) a tradition-rich yet adventurous style, spiced with world, jazz and pop."

For Seven Days, Ivers presents her astonishing program, Beyond the Bog Road, an all-star assemblage of Irish and traditional musicians, singers and dancers. Told through music, story, dance and featuring an exquisite video element, this multimedia performance is a celebration of the Irish immigrant's impact on America and America's impact on the Irish immigrant.

Born in the Bronx, Ivers first travelled to Ireland with her parents at age nine, where she won her first All-Ireland musical competition on the banjo. Since then, she's won 35 All-Ireland awards, including nine for solo fiddling. A founding member of the female celtic-supergroup Cherish the Ladies, Ivers spent time on tour as the musical star of Riverdance, and followed that up with a year-long tour with Hall & Oates. She has performed and recorded with an amazingly wide range of performers, including The Chieftains, Patti Smith, Paula Cole, Al Di Meola, Mick Moloney, Luka Bloom, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony at The Kennedy Center and Boston Pops, to name only a few.

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