For many of Eileen Ivers’ fans, the fiddler’s Christmas shows are now a traditional part of the holiday season. “I’ll tell you, I don’t take it lightly,” she said this week. “Just for a couple of hours to be in a theater and feel the emotions that this time of year brings. I like to stay in the lobby and hang out until the last person leaves, it makes my heart full.”

This will be her 22nd annual seasonal tour (she even did them online during shutdown), hitting Cary Hall in Lexington Sunday night. And the title “Joyful Christmas’ is no accident. “I feel that you only have so much time to have the privilege of being onstage, and maybe you can touch people in a deeper, emotional way. There’s a positive message in Christmas, and we all need to hear it. And I don’t like to bang people over the

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