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NEFS 2025 Block 2 will begin Weds 5th March and bookings are now open – visit the Shop to secure your place.

Join Grace Smith and Stewart Hardy as they share their fiddle expertise, both on Zoom and in Video Tutorials.

We will have our in-person, full-day workshop on Saturday 29th March in Wylam, and are delighted that both Stewart and Grace will be teaching.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2025

Sat 5th and Sun 6th July 2025

Save the dates!

We had such a wonderful time at our Summer Workshop Weekend in 2024, and we are looking forward to another fiddle-tastic weekend in July.

Save the dates! Saturday 5th July will be held in Wylam Methodist Church with Stewart Hardy and Niles Krieger sharing the teaching – great tunes and lots of fiddle technique exercises and tips to take away.

Sunday 6th July will be in Riding Mill Parish Hall, with Grace Smith and Stewart Hardy, where we will look at fiddle playing in harmony with ensemble and arrangement techniques.

It was lovely to see so many fiddle players come together last year, with such a positive attitude and eagerness to learn. Do join us!

There will also be a social event on the Saturday evening, with a short informal performance, followed by a tune session for all to join in with.

NEFS Winter Residential 2024

Fri 29th Nov – Sun 1st Dec 2024
These just keep getting better and better! What a fabulous weekend we all had. A huge thank you to all the participants for being such a positive and generous group. We were knocked out by how you looked after each other and us! The sessions were so much fun and your company was a joy! Ali and Stewart would like to say a special thank you to our colleagues, Grace Smith and Kevin Lees, whose artistry and professionalism were of the highest order and whose contribution to the weekend quite surpassed our unreasonably high expectations!

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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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Stewart Hardy
Grace Smith