Mark your calendar and polish up your dancing shoes! Travel back to the Jazz Age and the 19-teens and '20s. Join us at the 17th Annual Armistice Ball on
Saturday, November 8, 2025,
in Morristown, NJ.
And visit our FB page for a look back at prior festivities and to hear the sounds of
the Metropolitan Club Orchestra.
You're Invited!
Join us at the Armistice Ball, an evening of music and dancing from the 1910s and 1920s. Your hosts are members of the Metropolitan Vintage Dance & Social Club, a group of friends from the NJ-PA-NY area. They'll be happy to answer your questions about dancing, etiquette, or period clothing (military uniforms or modern cocktail/formal attire are fine, too). Email us at armisticeball@yahoo.com.
Tickets to the Ball are $45 per person (discount for students with valid ID) which includes a dance workshop from 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the same hall. Scroll down to buy your tickets.
The Ball itself begins at 8:00 p.m. with a few introductory dances, followed by a Grand March. You may join in with a Fox Trot, One-Step, Waltz, Tango, or Charleston -- or just come for the music and spectacle! Light refreshments are served during two intermissions.
Music is provided by the Metropolitan Club Orchestra under the direction of Dan Levinson. Followers of the NYC jazz scene will recognize Dan as not only a noted solo artist, but as a member of Vince Giordano's Nighthawks. He'll be j0ined by a line-up of other noted instrumentalists.
Buy Tickets
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Accommodations
If you're traveling from out of town and want to stay over after the ball, we plan to reserve a small block of rooms at the nearby Best Western Plus Morristown Inn, 270 South Street, Morristown. The room block will be available later this year.
About the hotel: Hotels in Morristown NJ | Best Western Plus Morristown Inn
History
The first Armistice Ball was held in November 1918 to celebrate the end of the First World War, also known as the War to End All Wars. Holding a ball around Armistice Day every year became a tradition in the USA and especially in Britain. Sadly, by the 1930s, people were concerned about a new war looming on the horizon, and the Armistice Ball custom died out.
Our intent is to follow in the tradition of the original decade of Armistice Balls past, to honor the memory of the people who lost their lives during World War I, and to honor the military members and veterans among our ball guests.
