May 2, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated, Eileen Ivers continues to push traditional fiddling boundaries from a folk music staple to a fiercely fresh, powerfully beautiful, intensely driving world stage experience. Over more than 40 years, Ivers has performed and toured with such diverse artists as Sting, Patti Smith, Al Di Meola, Hall and Oates and The Chieftains. She has guest starred with the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and more than 60 others.
She is a nine-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, and one of the most awarded All-Ireland Fiddle and Banjo Champions ever. Proclaimed “a national treasure,” she connects her American, Irish traditional, jazz, blues, and world roots.
The daughter of Irish immigrants, Eileen was born and raised in the Bronx, NYC and graduated magna cum laude in Mathematics from Iona University. In 2019, Iona University conferred upon Eileen Ivers the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts for her “lifelong commitment to innovation, excellence, and deep dedication to bringing people together through music.” Eileen currently serves on Iona’s Board of Trustees, and is helping to develop Iona’s performing arts curriculum. She also helped establish Iona’s global campus in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland in 2024, not far from where both of her parents were born.
Eileen and her husband and business partner, Brian, formed Musical Bridge, their record label, publishing house, and management company. She recently released her first critically acclaimed children’s book entitled “Will Someone Play Bluey”, a heartwarming, anti-bullying story featuring talking instruments… and a blue violin. The book was awarded the Family Choice Award for children’s books.
Eileen’s love of connecting her Irish and American roots shines through much of what she does. Eileen Ivers is one of America’s preeminent Irish fiddlers. Writer Frank McCourt summed up Ivers’s genius eloquently: “Eileen is to Irish music as Michael Flatley is to Irish dance—a pioneer, an innovator, a universalist. She grew up in boom-box Bronx and she carries sounds from childhood that are surely embedded in her musical soul…. Like Whitman she contains multitudes, and cannot be contained by Irish music itself.”