JOANIE MADDEN is considered one of the greatest musicians and personalities in the history of Irish music in America. She is the top selling whistle player in history with 500,000 albums sold through the success of her "Song of the Irish Whistle" series. A prolific artist performing on 200 recordings including three Grammy Award winning albums with such luminaries as Pete Seeger, Sinead O’Connor, Vince Gill and the Boston Pops. Joanie is a celebrated composer and entertainer who has amassed a plethora of awards and citations including Irish America Magazine's Top 100 Irish Americans, named Traditional Musician of the Year by the Irish Voice newspaper and immortalized on the streets of her native Bronx with a street was named after, “Joanie Madden and Cherish the Ladies”. She was bestowed one of the nation’s highest awards as she was chosen for the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and a recipient of the esteemed USA Artist Fellowship grant, singled out as one of the most innovative and influential artists in America. The Irish Music Awards presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award and Irish America Magazine named her one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Irish Women in the world. Most recently, Irish American Writers and Artists awarded her with the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement. For the past 35 years, Joanie has toured the world as the leader and driving force behind the internationally renowned Irish traditional music and dance ensemble, Cherish the Ladies.