Ellery Klein is a fiddler both genuine and versatile. She is steeped in the Irish tradition, but is unafraid to branch out into other styles. Her lyrical, but high-energy style is always well-received by audiences, whether as small as fourteen or as large as fourteen thousand.

From 2003 to 2007, Ellery toured across the U.S. with the contemporary world-pop Irish band Gaelic Storm, playing over 160 shows a year. She recorded two albums with the band—both of which reached #2 on the Billboard World Music charts.

Ellery left Gaelic Storm in April 2007, in order to welcome her first child to the world in July. Currently, Ellery is working on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing the Fiddle, due to be published in the fall of 2008.

Ellery completed an M.A. in Traditional Irish Music Performance at the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2001. She also has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Vermont.

Though she is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she attended high school at School for Creative and Performing Arts, it was thanks to the many great Irish musicians in Vermont that she developed her style. She was a founding member of Celtic rock band Whisky Before Breakfast in 1996, and toured Vermont and the East coast with them until 1998. She has also appeared in singer Cathie Ryan’s band. She toured with Scottish pianist James Ross and Irish banjo player Olive Brennan in 2001 and 2002. Her fiddling can also be heard on the soundtrack of the documentary The Golden Age of NASCAR.