EILEEN IVERS - Richmond Folk Festival 2020

EILEEN IVERS IRISH FIDDLE BRONX, NEW YORK Eileen Ivers is one of America’s preeminent Irish fiddlers. Born to Irish immigrant parents in the Bronx, she was raised in the Irish American community there. She began to play the fiddle at the age of eight and went on to study under master Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill. Ivers has won nine All-Ireland fiddle titles in her illustrious career, winning the first seven of those titles between ages eleven and nineteen, an astounding accomplishment for anyone in such a short time, let alone a teenager. In total, she holds more than 30 All-Ireland medals. Noted Irish American writer Frank McCourt sums up Ivers’s genius eloquently: “Eileen is … 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.”