Eileen Ivers to Celebrate New Album & St. Patrick's Day at Landmark, 3/1

By: Feb. 07, 2014
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Landmark on Main Street's World Beat Series ends with the return of Eileen Ivers on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 8 PM. Landmark thanks s World Beat Sponsors Entertainment One and Program Sponsors Finn MacCool's and WFUV Radio.

Groundbreaking Irish-American fiddler Eileen Ivers can keep up with classical virtuosi while keeping up the warmth of a kitchen party. She can shred, play reels through a cry-baby pedal, inspire with a bittersweet air and with her signature intensity, all while transmitting her deep love for tradition. The audience and stage become one through the interactive nature of the music, the joy of the musicians and the passion with which Ivers shares the stories of these traditions.

Looking back on repertoire that has connected the Celtic dots from Brittany to the Canadian Maritimes, from 17th-century songs to high-energy originals, Ivers and her band bring their unflagging energy and potent performance back to Landmark March 1, 2014.

The young Ivers never expected to become a professional musician with numerous All-Ireland Fiddle Championships and Grammy-awarded projects under her belt-she's a mathematician by education. Yet her unintentional career has taken her from co-founding Cherish the Ladies and touring with The Chieftains, to guest starring with acclaimed symphonies and collaborating with celebrated jazz and pop icons. Ivers's expertise and artistic diversity led her to forge a new, front-and-center role for the fiddle on many stages, including creating the musical star role of Riverdance.

Her own work has led her to dig deep into Irish and Celtic sounds, tracing connections between continents and scattered Celtic communities, sharing how these connections reverberate in American roots music, delving into jazz sensibilities and Grappelli-esque improvisations, and incorporating her trademark effects with her eye-catching (and ear-catching) electric violin. Now, she has set down an audio account of her travels, and this tour will offer a sneak peek at the fiddler's long-awaited new album, Beyond the Bog Road, due out this spring.

Ivers was labeled a young prodigy winning an unprecedented nine fiddle championships and over 35 medals on fiddle and banjo in the prestigious All-Ireland Competitions, she also has won the admiration of many musicians and composers from Sting to James Horner to the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, among her many affiliations.

Ivers newest project features to long-lost stories and heart-wrenching moments that go far deeper than the sparkle and dash of brilliant fiddling or the simple pleasures of Celtic-themed stage shows. Beyond the Bog Road delves profoundly and wholeheartedly into the Irish experience's impact on the New World and how it intertwined with African and Native American cultures, with Francophone and Appalachian music and dance.

Ivers brings together a gorgeous array of traditions from her family and her heritage, cherished airs, jigs, reels, and songs, as well as original compositions. She unites tunes from her father's West Irish village to her father-in-law's poetic memories of the "wakes" that honored departing immigrants, most of whom never saw their homelands again. These raw tunes and stories contributed to the foundation of Americana music.

"What unites all these elements and influences is that they flow from the honest music of a strong and resilient people who overcame and continue to overcome much adversity," notes Ivers. "And this music has now gone far beyond the bog road and the Irish diaspora, to every corner of the globe."

Tickets are Premium $47 (Friends $42); Standard $42 (Friends $37) and can be ordered through the box office phone number is 516-767-6444 or on-line www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.



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