Happy New Year!
NEFS 2026 Block 1 will run from Weds 14th Jan to Weds 11th Feb on Zoom. Stewart and Grace will be teaching fiddle practice and tunes live on Zoom, and we have a lovely new video tutorial series from each of them. More information is available on the Classes page, and you can book your place in the Shop.
Our Saturday workshop will be on Saturday 7th February in Wylam, and can be booked separately.
NEFS Winter Residential 2025
Fri 5th – Sun 7th December 2025
Shepherds Dene, Northumberland
with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith.
Thank you so much to everyone who attended our Winter Residential – what a wonderful weekend! Grace and Stewart are such a fantastic teaching double act, supporting and complementing each other, and we are so very fortunate to experience their skills.
Save the date for the next one!
4th – 6th December 2026
NEFS Summer Workout Weekend
These just keep getting better and better! What a fabulous weekend we all had last year. A huge thank you to all who were able to join us, and special thanks to our wondertul tutors – Stewart, Niles and Grace. Check out our Events for future workshops!
NEFS SWW 2026 will be on Sat 4th and Sun 5th July 2026
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Fiddle tuition online in the comfort of your own home, with Zoom calls and Video Tutorials on YouTube
North East Fiddle School worked hard to continue to bring the same excellent standards of fiddle teaching into your home during lockdown – wherever you are. We found this worked so well for adult fiddle learning that we are continuing to deliver regular fiddle practice and tune learning on Zoom, alongside in-depth tuition in the form of on-demand Video Tutorials, to work through at your convenience.
In-person workshops
There will be a full Saturday of in-person tuition for each block, including learning new tunes and all the relevant techniques required, plus a chance for a session to play our core repertoire together. We are also continually developing our offerings, so look out for our Winter Residential Weekends and our Summer Workshop Weekends, as well as the occasional Virtual Workout on Zoom.
Access to previous materials
As all of our Online Resources (including worksheets, audio files, video tutorials and recordings of our live Zoom calls) can be worked through in your own time, you can still sign up for previous courses. Please see the Shop for all the available Online Blocks.
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🎻 Happy New Year!2026 Block 1 begins this week on Wednesday - sign up now for our Fiddle Practice sessions on Zoom, and new tunes to learn 😀
This block, we have pulled together some tasty material to help develop bowing and fingering for the fiddle. Grace will be focusing on articulation techniques in her series of videos on the charming Waddington Tune from the Winder manuscripts, and Stewart will be providing technique videos on left hand finger positions and ornamentation.
We will be adding one of Jenna Reid’s many beautiful tunes into our Live Tune repertoire - by popular request, Bethany’s Waltz - along with the polka based on Charlie Harris’ Reel popularised by Kevin Burke. These will be preceded on our Wednesday evening online classes by yet more exercises dreamt up by Stewart and Grace to help develop our fiddle technique and make the repertoire more accessible.
Our Saturday in-person workshop will take place in Wylam on February 7th and will include tunes from France and Sweden - a schottische about a small cat and a jig celebrating 30 years!
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🎻 After a little rest, we are keen to get started again and Block 6 begins on Wednesday! If you'd like to join us for regular, weekly fiddle practice and to learn some great tunes with ideas on how to bring out the best in them, you can sign up now on the NEFS website.All the materials for Week 1 are now available and we look forward to seeing you on Zoom! If you can't make it live, the call recordings will be available afterwards, and we also have video tutorials for you to work through at your own pace. Stewart Hardy Music and Grace Smith Music have some great tunes for us, and are both such highly skilled tutors that they make it easy for us to improve our playing! Get in touch if you have any questions!😊
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🎻🎄 NEFS Winter Residential 2025We are delighted to be holding another Winter Residential Weekend at the lovely Shepherds Dene Retreat Centre on 5th – 7th December 2025. We are planning a relaxed social weekend, with lots of fiddle playing, including our regular Saturday Workshop day with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith.
Stewart and Grace will also be with us all weekend, joining in with the sessions, providing inspiration and support, and teaching extra workshops on the Sunday morning.
You can come just for the Saturday workshop, or add dinner and the evening sessions, the Sunday morning workshops, and bed & breakfast on either or both nights - entirely up to you! Details of all the options are on the website. We hope you can join us 🥰
