Eileen Ivers performs this weekend at the Pagosa Folk & Bluegrass Festival. KSUT will be featuring her new CD 'Beyond the Bog Road' on Friday 6/3, to help get the party started. We'll also be broadcasting an interview with Eileen, Thursday morning (6/2) at 10:40, and again, Friday at noon, taking you in to the feature CD.
The CD 'Beyond the Bog Road', is part of a multimedia concert of music, story, dance and film which celebrates the journey of the Irish immigrant, the story of their impact on America and America’s impact on them. Beyond the Bog Road showcases how Irish music and dance have integrated with various roots music of North America to create one of the richest cross-fertilizations of folk music styles in the world. It brings to light the influences of the Celtic tradition on roots music - bluegrass, French Canadian, Cajun and Appalachian- and how it journeyed on to become a fundamental ingredient of the American country music tradition.
