Jackson Irish Dancers was organized in 1998 by a group of friends who had stumbled across Irish dancing several years earlier and quickly found ourselves addicted. We’re now a membership-based organization that includes dozens of folks – kids as young as 6 and adults as old as … well, none of our business, really, but let’s just say it’s a diverse group! We’re from all sorts of backgrounds, including many who had never done any dancing to speak of until discovering Irish dance, but also including a few who grew up doing competitive Irish dancing and one who’s a professional dancer. All of us do this for the craic – in Irish, the good fun of it all. We enjoy all sorts of Irish dancing – the up-on-your-toes Riverdance-style solo dancing, the low-to-the-ground casual battering style of set dancing and seán nós (old-style) dancing, and the formal elegance of competition-style céilí dancing. We’re lucky to have a great local community of musicians and venues in the Jackson area where we can get on the dance floor. JID offers classes and workshops as well as casual get-togethers to learn some dancing; you can also book our group to dance or teach at your festival, school, church or club; and you can catch our performance group onstage across the region. For upcoming events and classes, check out the links at the top of this page.



		Whether you want to do some Irish dancing, learn about it, book some dancers to perform or lead a workshop at your next event, or even if you find yourself here by accident ... a hundred thousand welcomes to the JID dance floor!








					Jackson Irish Dancers was organized in 1998 by a group of friends who had stumbled across Irish dancing several years earlier and quickly found ourselves addicted. We’re now a membership-based organization that includes dozens of folks – kids as young as 6 and adults as old as … well, none of our business, really, but let’s just say it’s a diverse group! We’re from all sorts of backgrounds, including many who had never done any dancing to speak of until discovering Irish dance, but also including a few who grew up doing competitive Irish dancing and one who’s a professional dancer. All of us do this for the craic – in Irish, the good fun of it all. We enjoy all sorts of Irish dancing – the up-on-your-toes Riverdance-style solo dancing, the low-to-the-ground casual battering style of set dancing and seán nós (old-style) dancing, and the formal elegance of competition-style céilí dancing. We’re lucky to have a great local community of musicians and venues in the Jackson area where we can get on the dance floor. JID offers classes and workshops as well as casual get-togethers to learn some dancing; you can also book our group to dance or teach at your festival, school, church or club; and you can catch our performance group onstage across the region. For upcoming events and classes, check out the links at the top of this page.