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Eileen Ivers
Eileen Ivers (born July 13, 1965) is an American fiddler.
Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents, grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Barnabas High School. She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of nine. Her teacher was the Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill. She toured with Mick Moloney's band The Green Fields of America, founded in 1977. She graduated magna cum laude from Iona College in New York and has done post-graduate work in mathematics.
Ivers was a founding member of Cherish the Ladies. She recorded and toured with them for several years.
In 1995, she replaced the original fiddler in the Riverdance Irish dance troupe and toured with them.