Joanie Madden is an award winning whistle and flute player who has been the leader of Cherish the Ladies since its inception. As part of the Temple Bar TradFest series of lunch time concerts, Joanie will perform an intimate recital style concert in City Hall.
Born in New York of Irish parents, she is the second oldest of seven children raised in a musical household. She has amassed a plethora of awards and citations to her credit including; the youngest member inducted into both the Irish-American Musicians Hall of Fame and the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Hall of Fame, recipient of the Wild Geese Award, voted twice as one of the Top 100 Irish-Americans in the United States and named Traditional Musician of the Year, all for her contributions to promoting and preserving Irish culture in America.
Joanie is in constant demand as a studio musician and has performed on over a hundred albums running the gamut from Pete Seeger to Sinead O’Connor. Joanie has played on three Grammy award-winning albums and her involvement on the Hearts of Space labels’ 'Celtic Twilight' CD led to a platinum album with over 1,000,000 sales. In the past year she has toured with the Eagles Don Henley and was also a featured soloist on the final Lord of the Rings soundtrack. She is the top selling whistle player in history having sold over 500,000 solo albums. In addition to the fifteen albums Joanie has recorded, arranged and produced for Cherish the Ladies, she has also released collaborative acclaimed albums with the group 'Pride of New York' a duet album with her father Joe Madden, 'A Galway Afternoon' and three highly successful solo albums; 'A Whistle on the Wind', 'Song of the Irish Whistle' and 'Song of the Irish Whistle 2'
