If there is any doubt about the narcotic precision of Eileen Ivers's fiddling which a long listen wouldn't cure, consider the fact that she is at heart a math geek, all the way to post-graduate work in university.
But Ivers is no nerd. Instead, she's a calm Bronx Irish descendant whose travels have brought her to championships and awards abroad and, never mind all that, stardom as such in the tour of Riverdance. She and her mixed band play tomorrow at Winspear downtown, a small venue, or shall we say intimate, compared to a full-on Riverdance attack.
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