Artist: Joanie Madden
Genre(s):
Celtic
Other
Discography:
Song of the Irish Whistle
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Whistle on the Wind
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Born in the Woodlawn section of The Bronx, New York, Joanie Madden has ground her musical divine guidance in her ancestral home of Ireland. The showtime American to gain the Senior All-Ireland backup on the tin whistle, Madden is the youngest member inducted into the Irish-American Musicians Hall of Fame. The fall flat and leader of Cherish the Ladies, a band comprised of first coevals Irish-American musicians, Madden has been as successful on her own. Her second album, Song of the Irish Whistle, released in 1996, is the top merchandising whistle album of all time. A second volume was released in 1999.
Madden familial her musical skills from her parents. Her mother, Helen Meade, a native of County Clare, is a dancer of Clare sets. Her don, Joe Madden, world Health Organization hails from County Galway, is an amateur piano accordion player. Although she took basketball team lessons on the pianissimo, Madden didn't name her musical voice until a family friend introduced her to the tin whistle. With money earned by babysitting, she began poring over with Jack Coen, an influential East Galway-born whistle role player world Health Organization lived roughly the street corner, at the age of xIII. Madden took to the instrument in a flash. After encyclopaedism two songs, she began playacting with her father's band. Her skills were further sharpened during jam roger Huntington Sessions with fiddler Eileen Ivers, world Health Organization tended to the same elementary school. Within basketball team age, Madden had become so proficient on the musical instrument that she easily placed arcsecond for the low gear of two straight years in the All-Ireland rival. She received her number one gold medal, in 1983, at the age of twenty-five, the same age that her church Father was when he north Korean won the competition as an accordionist.
Shortly later receiving the atomic number 79 decoration and reversive to New York, Madden received a gratulatory headphone call from Mick Moloney. During their conversation, Moloney explained that he was putt together a series of concerts that would showcase the prima female Irish-American musicians at the Ethnic Folk Arts Center in New York. The series, called "Treasure The Ladies" after a traditional jig, proved a success. An album compiled during the series was named one of the best folks albums of 1985 by the Library of Congress. The same year, an album, Fathers and Daughters, was released which featured each of the women playacting a pas de deux with their father.
A more formal band was unionized in May 1987, sponsored by the Ethnic Folk Arts Center and the NEA. This radical has continued to exercise together and has released five additional albums -- The Back Door in 1992, Out And About in 1993, New Day Dawning in 1996, Threads Of Time in 1998 and At Home in 1999 -- as well as a "topper of" compilation.
Madden has balanced her participation in Cherish the Ladies with solo performances and recordings. Her debut solo album, A Whistle On The Wind, was released in 1994. Madden has performed half a dozen multiplication with the Boston Pops and played on their Grammy-nominated album, The Celtic Album. Madden has besides performed on albums by Sinead O'Connor, Pete Seeger, Andy Cooney, and Eileen Ivers.
Bettye LaVette
