2008 Augusta Instructor Bio


Week 3
Irish/Celtic Week
Intermediate/Advanced Whistle

Joanie Madden


Joanie Madden, Irish Week Coordinator, was born in New York to musical parents. She is the sparkplug igniting the powerful all-woman Irish-American band, Cherish the Ladies.  An extraordinary tin whistle and flute player, she’s the only American-born Irish musician ever to win the Senior All-Ireland tin whistle title. Madden is the youngest member of the Irish-American Musicians Hall of Fame