Champion Fiddler Eileen Ivers Wraps Up Thanksgiving Holiday With All-New Show

Grammy-winner Eileen Ivers brings "A Joyous Christmas" to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series on Sunday, November 27 at 2 p.m. With her signature warmth, Ivers invites listeners in for a tuneful, soulful celebration capturing the true spirit of the season and telling the story of Christmas through music and dance. Audiences of all ages will recognize the holiday's universal traditions of home and hearth that are part of Christmas for Irish families. The concert interweaves age-old Wren Day songs, beloved American carols, gospel, and even a jigging J.S. Bach.

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. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Ivers grew up in the culturally diverse Bronx, New York. Rooted in Irish traditional music since the age of eight, Ivers proceeded to win nine All-Ireland fiddle championships, a tenth on tenor banjo, and over 30 championship medals, making her one of the most awarded to compete in these prestigious competitions.

Being an Irish-American, the intrigue of learning more about the multicultural sounds of her childhood took hold. After graduating magna cum laude in mathematics from Iona College and while continuing her post-graduate work in mathematics, Eileen fully immersed herself in the different genres of music that she experienced growing up in New York. Perhaps it was the mathematical mind coupled with her passion for seeking parallels in certain traditional music styles that contributed to what has become the Signature Sound featured in much of Eileen's recordings since the late 1980s.

Eileen Ivers' performance was made possible by the Hagerty Irish Performer Series and is co-sponsored by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.

Ticket Information

Regular tickets are $26. Child/student tickets are $12. Visit performingarts.nd.edu/newseason for more information or call the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (574) 631-2800 Monday-Friday, noon-6 p.m.

About the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Since opening in September 2004, the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center has become an integral part of the University's vision and commitment to becoming a preeminent research university. It is the University's leading presenter of world-class artistic programming, one with an institutional focus on contemporary works. As an academic space, the center enhances the scholarship, teaching and practice of the performing and cinematic arts. As a community space, the center welcomes more than 100,000 patrons annually, including thousands of K-12 students in education and related artistic programs. Presenting Series and Browning Cinema programs are curated to increase the center's capacity to educate, enlighten and engage.

Additional support for the Presenting Series provided by media sponsor WSBT-TV; visiting artist accommodations by The Morris Inn, program printing underwriting by Express Press Inc., WNIT Public Television, and Grass Roots Media.

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