Edgerton Performing Arts Center -

Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 7:30PM

“It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,”  says the Boston Globe speaking of Cherish the Ladies, the long-running, Grammy- nominated, Irish-American super group that formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in what had been a male-dominated Irish music scene. Over the past three decades, they have toured the world, played the White House and the Olympics and recorded 17 critically acclaimed albums including their Emmy winning special, “An Irish Homecoming,” which was broadcast on PBS.

Under the leadership  of All-Ireland flute and whistle champion Joanie Madden, named by The Irish Voice Newspaper as one of the Top 25 most influential Irish Americans of the past quarter century, these ladies create an evening that includes a spectacular blend of virtuoso instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements, and stunning step dancing. Their continued success as one of the top Celtic groups in the world is due to the ensembles ability to take the best of Irish traditional music and dance and put it forth in an immensely entertaining show.

 The  New  York  Times  calls   their   music   “passionate,   tender,   and   rambunctious,”   and  the Washington  Post praises  their  “astonishing   array   of   virtuosity.”   They’ve   won recognition as the BBC’s Best Musical Group of the Year and named Top North American Celtic Group at the Irish Music Awards and not to mention having a street named after them in the Bronx! They’ve collaborated with such musicians as The Boston Pops, The Clancy Brothers, the Chieftains, Vince Gill, Nanci Griffith, Pete Seeger, Don Henley,  Arlo Guthrie and Maura O’Connell as well as being the featured soloist with over 280 nights  of  symphony orchestras.

 The level of artistic, historic, and purely enticing entertainment is unlike any in its genre. As their reputation and admiration from both fans and critics alike continues to grow, Cherish The Ladies blazes forward into another decade of music making.

Artist website: https://cherishtheladies.com/

Tickets: $35 each purchase online HERE please register if you are purchasing tickets for the first time or by phone at (608)561-6093.

For information concerning our seating please click here: SEATS

Funded by the William & Joyce Wartmann Edgerton Endowment for the Performing Arts