introduction

Public House Ceili Band presents straight-ahead traditional Irish dance music. After years of playing together every week at the local Irish music session at Mickey's Tavern in Madison, Wisconsin, these four musicians took their act on the road. They played from 1996 through 2007 for outdoor festivals (especially the Milwaukee Irish Fest), indoor concerts – and above all for dances around the upper Midwest. Their extensive repertoire and mastery of style and technique generate a high-energy rhythm that elevates ceili dances and set dances to a genuine experience of craic. From Milwaukee to Madison to Moline, their jigs, reels, slides, polkas, and hornpipes have moved the feet of the Midwest's finest Irish dancers.

Dance to our CD! Our album, Go Figure, is still available for sale right here. If you're interested in the first CD of music for set dancing ever to be recorded in North America, chock-full of mighty dance music for the Caledonian, the Plain, the Connemara, and the Sliabh Luachra sets, click here!

Browse our repertoire of music for traditional sets and ceili dances.

calendar

• August 18 and 19, 2007, Milwaukee, IL: GRAND FINALE - the last and final appearance of Public House Ceili Band! Milwaukee Irish Fest, Sprecher Dance Pavilion, Saturday 6:45 pm (sets) and Sunday 3 pm (ceili).

band members

Click a name to read biographies about each musician.

You can also browse our archive of past announcements.

recommended links

• Alan Ng is also a member of The Snug and West Wind. Two of his Irish-music related Web sites are irishtune.info Irish Traditional Music Tune Index and his abc tune transcriptions.
• Bob Newton is also a member of Keltori and West Wind.
• Dan Cobb has published his complete repertoire in abc format as Cobb's Music of Ireland.
• Bob and Alan are responsible for an on-line Celtic Music history course via the University of Wisconsin.
• Bob and Alan also teach Irish music evening courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• The Celtic Music Association of Madison, Wisconsin (lots more links there).
• Irish Set Dancing in Milwaukee.
• Set Dancing News includes a world-wide set dance calendar and much more.
• Irish Music Magazine