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Category: Keep Her Lit
10/2025 | 6:30PM Wed | Sean-nós Dance
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Playlist for the Month
week 1
Week 1 – Clare Battering
Clare Elements – Clare Battering Week 1
The morning class is working on Clare Battering steps from Aiden and Mick.
- Review
- Clare Battering #1 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Clare Battering #2 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Alicia Guinn Clare Battering #3 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Mick Banner – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Mick $500 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Aiden Vaughn
- Drill
- Mick Banner – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Mick $500 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Ideas for the future
- Floor Shuffle vs Regular Shuffles with each step
- Right only, Left only, two sided
- Clare Battering #1 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Clare Battering #2 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Alicia Guinn Clare Battering #3 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Mick Banner – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Mick $500 – Floor Shuffle – Regular Shuffles
- Aiden Vaughn
- Variations – Taking any of these steps and shaping them into variations that suit your own feet and style might open up new possibilities. You might choose to simplify, embellish, or add elements from the master list. This kind of play can make the steps feel more comfortable and personal, helping you bring them naturally into your regular repertoire.
- Master List of Improvistation and step creation elements
week 2
Week 2 – Clare Advance & Retire (review battering steps)
week 3
Week 3 –
week 4
Week 4 –
week 5
Week 5 –
10/2025 | 7:30am | M-W-F | Sean-nós & Battering
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This tab has everything you need in one spot: the full playlist of videos for this month, the monthly schedule with links and the playlist.
- October Schedule – with links to all the indvidual steps and playlists for each week.
- Entire Month Video Playlist – All the zoom classes as well as practice videos.
- Entire Month Spotify Playlist – All the albums in one place.
September Schedule
playlist
week 1
Week 1 – Clare Battering
Resources
- Step Videos –
- Clare Batter #1
- Clare Batter #2 https://maldonmeehan.com/battering-for-sets-reels-clare-batter-2/
- Clare Batter #3 https://maldonmeehan.com/battering-for-sets-reels-clare-batter-3/
- Mick Banner – https://maldonmeehan.com/battering-for-sets-reels-clare-batter-mick-1/
- Mick $500
- Aidan Vaughan
- https://maldonmeehan.com/irish-set-dancing-clare-battering/
- Music Playlists – Spotify & YouTube
- Spotify
- YouTube
- Previous Courses
Live Zoom Classes
- Woodshed #1 (10/1)– Focused session covering Clare Battering Steps
- Woodshed #2 (10/3) – Focused session covering Clare Advance & Retire Steps
Woodshed: Clare #1,#2,#3, Mick Banner, Mick $500, Aidan
Woodshed: Mick A&R, Maldon A&R, Hare’s Paw A&R, Willie A&R #1,2,3,4
Mick Mulkerrin
Aidan Vaughan
week 2
Week 2 – Clare Battering Transitions
Resources
- Previous Course – See week 1
Live Zoom Classes
- Woodshed (10/6)– Focused session covering Clare Battering and Advance & Retires
- Keep Her Lit (10/8) – Clare Battering drilling & September routines & steps
- Speed & Craic (10/10) – Tulla Céilí Band
Woodshed: Clare Routine & Transitions
Keep Her Lit:
- Clare Battering – Lead / Follow / Two Sided
- Clare Batter #1
- Mick A&R
- Clare Batter #2
- Maldon A&R
- Clare Batter #3
- Hare’s Paw A&R
- Mick Banner
- Willie A&R
- Mick $500
- Willie A&R 2
- Aidan Vaughan
Speed & Craic: Whole Album (Tulla Céilí Band “A Celbration of 50 Years Spotify or Apple) Clare Elements
Clare Elements
- Shuffle on the floor (Clare) single, 2, or more
- Shuffle in the air (regular shuffle)
- Step “catch” drop or 123
- Heel backs & with tips
- ball drop step (ball drop tap)
- Paddy tips & triplets
- hips & trips
- mick banner frist half & second half
- Wille frist quarter 2 sides, frist half
- Will shuffle backs
- Heels options
- Delay – ronan and options
- Mick $500 middle, frist half, second half
- Aiden
week 3
Week 3 – Jigs, Polkas and Slides, The Sunday Set
Recourses
- Step Videos:
- Clare – Jig Advance & Retire
- Jigs –
- Slides –
- Poklkas – Mick’s Polka Step
Woodshed
- Woodsheds: Polkas
Keep Her Lit
Speed & Craic
- Sliabh Notes Gleanntán
- Elements from Polkas, Jigs, Slides
week 4
Week 4 – Jigs, Polkas and Slides, (maybe Hornpipes & Cavan Step)
Woodshed
- 1234 and 12345 elements
- Mick’s step – polka, sldie, jig
- tip down, heel down elements
- Jigs – nice pattern 1 & 2 & 1234 vs Slides nice pattern 1234 1 & 2
week 5
Week 5
Jig Play
- Jigs
Keep Her Lit
- Jigs
Speed & Craic
- Happy Halloween
- Johnn Óg Connolly, Fear Inis Bearachain
09/2025 | Wed 6:30pm | Sean-nós
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This tab has everything you need in one spot: the full playlist of videos for this month, the monthly schedule with links and the playlist.
- Entire Month Video Playlist – All the zoom classes as well as practice videos.
September Schedule
- Sept. 3 – Worked on steps from morning class
- Sept. 10 – Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig
- Sept. 17
- Sept 24
Entire Month Video Playlist
week 1
Week 1 –
Make up class for the morning woodshed of The Rookery Set. The power was out and this was the make up class for the September Dance by Ear.
Class: Finish the Rookery
week 2
Week 2 – Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig
Resources
- Step Videos – Individual Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig steps
- Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig A
- Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig B
- Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig C
- Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig D
- Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig E
- Music Playlists – Spotify & YouTube
Zoom Class: Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig
YouTube: Paidhin O’Rafferty’s Jig
Collobrate and add videos here – if you find recordings that like please add them to the playlist or let me know and I can add them.
week 3
week 4
Week 4
- The Sunday Set
Zoom Class
- The Sunday Set – building it up one step at a time at a slow tempo.
09/2025 | M-W-F | 7:30 AM | Sean-nós | Dance by Ear
intro
This tab has everything you need in one spot: the full playlist of videos for this month, the monthly schedule with links and the playlist.
- September Schedule – with links to all the indvidual steps and playlists for each week.
- Entire Month Video Playlist – All the zoom classes as well as practice videos.
- Entire Month Spotify Playlist – All the albums in one place.
September Schedule
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |
| 7:30 am (PST) | Woodshed | Keep Her Lit | Speed & Craic |
| Week 1 Caitlin Nic Gabhann | Sept 1 No Class 😩 Power was out! This is what my dad and I did while the power was out | Sept 3 The Rookery Course Woodshed #1 Rookery #1 Rookery #2 Rookery #3 Rookery #4 Woodshed #2 Rookery #5 Rookery #6 Rookery #7 Rookery #8 The Whole Routine! | Sept 5 Caitlín by Caitlin Nic Gabhann Spotify or Apple |
| Week 2 John Carty | Sept 8 G White’s #1 G White’s #2 G White’s #3 G White’s #4 G White’s 1-7 G White’s #5 G White’s #6 G White’s #7 | Sept 10 George White’s 1-7 Hare’s Paw A & B Full August Course Hare’s Paw The Rookery 1-8 | Sept 12 Yeh, That’s All It Is by John Carty Spotify or Apple |
| Week 3 Bobby Gardiner | Sept 15 Stamp & Stamp Madness Paraig Basic Paraig Heel Toe Heel Boffin Meave Mick Advance & Retire Clare Battering Step Tricky Hips Willie Keane | Sept 17 Paraig Ó Haibicín The Sunday Set The Rookery Course Hare’s Paw George White’s Favourite | Sept 19 Melodeon Mad! by Bobby Gardiner Spotify or Apple |
| Week 4 Cran | Sept 22 Accapella Reels 3 Shuffles, 2 Shuffles, 5 Heels Cross Step Run on with a Pause Tip Step with Click Run on with no Pause Tip Step Both Sides Side Step Hop Step Run on in a Circle 3 Tips Step Finishing Step | Sept 24 Accapella Reels Paraig Ó Haibicín The Sunday Set The Rookery Course George White’s Favourite Hare’s Paw | Sept 26 Black Black Black by Cran Spotify or Apple Happy Birthday to Maldon! |
| Week 5 Challenge Yourself! | Sept 29 Monthly Challenge! The Rookery Course, George White’s, Paraig Ó Haibicín & The Sunday Set, Accapella Reels |
Entire Month Video Playlist
Entire Month Spotify Playlist
week 1
Week 1 – The Rookery Steps & Caitlín Nic Gabhann’s Music
Resources
- Step Videos – Individual Rookery steps & all the videos
- Rookery #1 – A – Slide
- Rookery #2 – A – Nancy Blake Heels
- Rookery #3 – B – Slide Hips
- Rookery #4 – B – Slide Hips Drum
- Rookery #5 – A – Nancy Blake Heels & Stabs
- Rookery #6 – A – Toe Tap
- Rookery #7 – B – Slide Hips Double Slide (Kirin’s)
- Rookery #8 – B – Slide Hips Slide Click Drum (Quincy’s)
- All the vides: Rookery All
- Music Playlists – Spotify & YouTube, including Alan Kelly’s version (recommended by Sheila)
- Previous Course – Rookery Steps course
All The Steps: Steps #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8
Live Zoom Classes
- Woodshed #1 (9/3)– Focused session covering Rookery Steps #1–4
- Woodshed #2 (9/3)– Focused session covering Rookery Steps #5-8
- Keep Her Lit (?) – Revisit and dance through all Rookery steps together
- Speed & Craic (9/5) – Dancing to Caitlín by Caitlín Nic Gabhann
Woodshed: Steps #1, #2, #3, #4
Woodshed: Steps #5, #6, #7, #8
Adding each step one at a time | Slow
Keep Her Lit: Steps #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8
Speed & Craic: The Rookery Elements
Speed & Craic: The Whole Album with some of the element
week 2
Week 2 – George White’s Favourite
Resources
- Step Videos – Individual Rookery steps & all the videos
- George White’s Favourite #1 – A – Side Synco Step
- George White’s Favourite #2– B – Devane Heel Ball Flap
- George White’s Favourite #3– B – Step Shuffle extra shuffle/Heels
- George White’s Favourite #4– A – Kick Up
- George White’s Favourite #5 – A – Zombie
- George White’s Favourite #6 – B – Side Step with floor shuffles
- George White’s Favourite #7– B – Tricky
- All the videos: George White’s Favourite
- Music Playlists – Spotify & YouTube
- Previous Course – George White’s Steps course
Live Zoom Classes
- Woodshed (9/8)– Focused session coveringGeroge White’s Favourite Steps #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7
- Keep Her Lit (9/10) – Revisit and dance through all George Whites Favourite steps together (1-7)
- Speed & Craic (9/5) – Dancing to Yeh, That’s All It Is by John Carty.
Woodshed: Steps #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7
Keep Her Lit: Rookery (Week 1), The Rookery, Hare’s Paw (August), George White’s, plus some speed & craic at the end!
- The Rookery Order list – Printable
- George White’s Order list – Printable
Speed & Craic: Whole Album (Yeh, That’s All It Is by John Carty
Spotify or Apple)
week 3
Week 3 – Paraig O Haibicín & The Sunday Set
Recourses
- Step Videos: Paraig Videos
- Step Videos: The Sunday Set
- Sunday Set | Lesson 1 | Stamp & Stamp
- Sunday Set | Lesson 2 | Madness
- Sunday Set | Lesson 3 | Paraig Basic
- Sunday Set | Lesson 4 | Paraig Heel Toe Heel
- Sunday Set | Lesson 5 | Boffin
- Sunday Set | Lesson 6 | Meave
- Sunday Set | Lesson 7 | Mick Advance & Retire
- Sunday Set | Lesson 8 | Clare Battering Step
- Sunday Set | Lesson 9 | Tricky
- Sunday Set | Lesson 10 | Hips
- Sunday Set | Lesson 11 | Willie Keane
Woodshed
- Woodshed of all the steps from the Sunday set, plus extra beats and variations.
Keep Her Lit
Speed & Craic
- 09.19.2025 Speed & Craic
- Melodeon Mad! by Bobby Gardiner
Spotify or Apple- 1. Reels
- 2. Jigs
- 3. Hornpipe
- 4. Waltz
- 5. Polka
- 6. Horpipe
- 7. Polka/Song
- 8. Reels
- 9. Jigs
- 10. Jig
- 11. Reel
- 12. Jig
- 13. Walz
- 14. Hornpipe
- Elements from The Sunday Set
- Stamp & Stamp (extra beats)
- Connemara (extra beats)
- Shuffle steps
- Shuffle steps triplets
- One sided shuffle & drops
- One sided shuffle & drops (triplets)
- Paraig timing step
- Paraig timing step (triplets)
- Paraig toe toe heel
- Paraig toe toe heel (heel down triplets?)
- Boffin (first half)
- Bofifn (extra beats)
- Boffin ending
- Boffin ending (extra beats)
- Meave
- Meave (extra beat)
- Meave (play)
- Mick (frist half)
- Heel backs
- Clare battering
- Tricky (all varations)
- Hips (two sided)
- Willie heel slap
- Willie heel slap dealy
- Willie heels
- Shuffle backs
- Shuffle backs (triplets)
- Shuffle backs (other beats)
week 4
Week 4 – A Capella Reels
Woodshed
- Accapella Reels
- 3 Shuffles, 2 Shuffles, 5 Heels
- Cross Step
- Run on with a Pause Tip Step with Click
- Run on with no Pause
- Tip Step Both Sides Side Step
- Hop Step
- Run on in a Circle
- 3 Tips Step
- Finishing Step
Keep Her Lit
- Week 4 – Accapella Reels
- Week 3 – Paraig Ó Haibicín & The Sunday Set
- Week 2 – George White’s Favourite
- Week 1 – The Rookery Course
- August – Hare’s Paw
Speed & Craic
week 5
Week 5 – Monthly Challenge (Sept 29)
Thank you for an incredible month of woodshedding, keeping her lit, and speed & craic!
Today we’ll take on the Monthly Challenge: dancing all the material from September—plus the Hare’s Paw from August—at full tempo.
Be Kind to Yourself
This challenge is not about perfection. Even I won’t dance everything perfectly at full tempo without messing up, slipping off time, or letting any old step pop out of my feet. The goal is to push ourselves, see what sticks, and notice how far we’ve come.
How It Works
- We’ll run through every routine at full tempo.
- If the music feels too fast, pick any step you can manage at that speed.
- Challenge yourself to remember the routines as well as to dance them.
Why We Do It
This is our ultimate test: finding which steps you want to light in your repertoire and build toward playing with live music or in a session. Notice:
- Which steps are already there?
- Which ones need a slower starting tempo for practice?
- Which ones spark joy and deserve to stay in your repertoire?
My hope is that something from this month will speak to you—something you’ll carry forward, polish, and dance in community with others.
Full Speed – Monthly Challenge!
- A Capella Reels – A Capella or any set of reels
- The Sunday Set – Any set of reels
- George White’s Favourite
- The Rookery
- The Hare’s Paw
This month we explored the music of Caitlin Nic Gabhann, John Carty, Bobby Gardner and Cran. Did you have a favorite artist or track? Let me know. Also, did you have a favorite step or routine from this month? What would you like to keep lit?
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