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Set Dance Club -- Home Page
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Irish Set Dancing in Milwaukee
Social
Dancing
for Adults
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Milwaukee
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Weekly DancingContinues
at Falcon Bowl (April-May)
and Friends Meeting House
(June & beyond)
Wednesdays 7:00 p.m.
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Find
the Milwaukee Set Dance Club on Facebook:
Search for SetDance Milwaukee
no space after "Set" and one space after "Dance")
Or become a fan
by clicking on the box to the right. Facebook
membership required.
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No
formal classes are planned for the moment. We are very
beginner-friendly at our weekday dances and will help you get
started, and help you build your skills, or just have fun!
Weekday
Evening Dances: Well, not exactly "weekly"
because our
Wednesday evenings dances
are held about twice a month (not every Wednesday.)
See the schedule below. To get the latest information, sign up
for our email list or see our Facebook page.
Cost: $5
At the moment, masks are required.
This issue is reviewed thoughtfully on an ongoing basis and
will be relaxed when appropriate. Please respect our members
by continuing to wear a mask at our dances until this
requirement is removed. We also ask that only fully
COVID-vaccinated persons participate. Thank you.
This
continues a long tradition of weekly dancing which began
at Nash's Irish Castle in 1991. Nash's, alas, is no
more, but this
web page survives for now.
We generally do not meet the Wednesday after Irish Fest.
Upcoming schedule notes for 2022- all weekday dances start at
7:00 PM unless noted.See the Venues
section for locations, parking, and other important
information.
| May 4 |
Falcon
Bowl |
801
E. Clarke St, Milwaukee |
| May 18 |
Falcon Bowl
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801 E.
Clarke St, Milwaukee |
| June 1 |
Milwaukee Friends Meeting |
3224 N. Gordon Place, Milwaukee |
| June 22 |
Milwaukee Friends Meeting |
3224 N. Gordon Place, Milwaukee |
| July 6 |
Milwaukee
Friends Meeting |
3224
N. Gordon Place, Milwaukee |
July 20
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Milwaukee Friends Meeting
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3224 N. Gordon Place, Milwaukee
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| August 3 |
Milwaukee
Friends Meeting |
3224
N. Gordon Place, Milwaukee
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| August 19-21 |
Irish Fest |
Henry W. Maier Festival Park, 200 North Harbor Drive,
Milwaukee, WI 53202 |
| August 31 |
Milwaukee Friends Meeting |
3224 N. Gordon Place,
Milwaukee |
Important notes about parking:
- On-street parking is available at the Falcon Bowl.
- For The Friends Meeting House, parking is limited.
- Consider car pooling where possible.
- Some on-street parking is available, e,g, Auer Avenue and
nearby. Be sure to read and follow the parking signs.
- During non-school hours, parking is allowed in the
Gaenslen School lot,
- South of the Meeting House, on the right, at the end of
Auer Avenue. Follow the sidewalk from the lot to the meeting
house.
Periodic e-mail updates are sent throughout the year. See Contacts
to be added to our list.
We ask for a free-will offering of five dollars per person
each week to offset our rental costs. This is waived for paid
class participants.
| Monthly Dances with Live
Music |
Regular dances are held
on most fourth Saturdays of the month (exceptions below) at the
ICHC. Come at
7:00 p.m. to learn the Set of the Month. Dance to live music from
8:00 p.m. until 11:00. $10.00 free will offering requested. Tea
and snacks are provided. Beer and soda are sold to benefit the ICHC. Please bring a treat to share if you can.
Please Note: There will not be a dance every month;
those listed below are the only montly dances we will hold. Check
back here and on Facebook for updates.
Please note: Due to a new ICHC security policy, the doors to the
bulding must remain locked. In general, there will be someone
available to open the door- ring the bell to be admitted. Also, the
doors at the top of the stairs will be locked. We advise arriving
between 6:45 at 7:00, or 7:45-8:00, and having the mobile number of
someone who is likely to have already arrived.
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Event |
Music |
Featured Set |
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Midwinter
Set Dance Weekend -- February 21 - 23,
2020
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| Plans for the Twentieth Annual Milwaukee Midwinter
Set Dance Weekend are in flux at this time. |
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Music for the Midwinter Weekend provided by great bands:
The Irish
Cultural and Heritage Center hosts a variety of celtic
events, including Ceili dances most first Fridays and third
Saturdays of the month. Ceili
dance info.
Irish Dancing in the Chicago area: Irish
Dance Chicago.
The Irish
Cultural and Heritage Center (ICHC) is at 2133
W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee (just west of Marquette
U.). Click
for map. Park free in lots off 23rd St. south of Wisconsin
Ave. Westbound: take
I-94 west to 25th St. Exit, Go north on 25th Street to Wisconsin
Avenue. Then right (east) to 23rd Street. Eastbound:
take I-94 east to 35th St. exit, go north (left) to
Wisconsin Ave., east to 23rd St. Parking is available in lots
south (and slightly West) of the center. Take 23rd St. south to
alley to enter.
The Falcon
Bowl is a historic fraternal organization for the
Polish community in Milwaukee. We've been privileged to dance
there from February to April 2022. The building has been sold,
so we will meet at the Milwaukee Friends Meeting House from May
through August 2022. Address: 801 E Clarke St,
Milwaukee. Map-
Falcon Bowl
The Milwaukee Friends Meeting house is
our venue for the summer of 2022, located at 3224 N.
Gordon Place, Milwaukee, WI 53212. Map-
Milwaukee Friends Meeting House Be advised that parking is
limited at the Friends Meeting House. During non-school hours,
parking is allowed in the Gaenslen School lot, South of the
Meeting House, on the right, at the end of Auer Avenue. Follow the
sidewalk from the lot to the meeting house.
Here are the web sites of some of the bands and musicians that
have played for us at our dances. Please support your local
musicians!
Below, you should see four scrolling graphic images containing
email addresses and phone numbers for contacting us.
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SetMke.org maintains a low-volume mailing
list to keep the set dance community informed of our
events and activities.
To be added to (or removed from) the e-mail list
please send a message to the address below. Indicate
what address you'd like to add, or remove.
Please also mention if you'd like to be on our local
(weekly dances, etc), regional (Monthly dances and
larger events), or national (Our largest events, which
tend to interest people further away from Milwaukee)
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About The Milwaukee
Set Dance Club |
The Milwaukee Set Dance Club is an unincorporated non-profit
association as defined in Chapter 184 of the Statutes of the
State of Wisconsin.
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