FIDDLER OFFERS "GLOBALLY INFUSED" CELTIC SOUND

Fiddler Eileen Ivers

Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul, hailed as one of the great innovators and pioneers of the Celtic and world-music genres, will perform at Bryn Mawr College on Friday, Sept. 16, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Theater.

Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul's appearance at Bryn Mawr signals the start of the College's yearlong Performing Arts Series, featuring some of this country's finest performing artists and musicians.

Ivers' performance is free to students of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for seniors and Bryn Mawr faculty and staff. Performing Arts Series subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.

Described by The New York Times as "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin," Eileen Ivers' globally infused yet traditional Irish sound has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and abroad since the late 1980s. A touring headliner, she has recording credits on more than 80 contemporary and traditional albums and numerous movie scores. Her reputation as the pre-eminent exponent of the Irish fiddle in the world today has resulted in affiliations with the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony at The Kennedy Center, the Boston Pops, Riverdance, The Chieftains, Paula Cole, Patti Smith, Hall and Oates, and Cherish the Ladies.

In 1999, Ivers formed her touring troupe in New York where, as the daughter of Irish immigrants, she had become rooted in Irish traditional music and in the multicultural sounds of her Bronx neighborhood. Her signature sound — a mix of African and Latin percussion and brass, Irish instrumentalists and American soulful vocals — has been featured at major festivals worldwide and on national and international television. Ivers also continues to share the stage with two of the world's most celebrated violinists, classical virtuoso Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and jazz great Regina Carter, in the "Fiddlers Three."

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