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We hope you had a lovely summer filled with lots of fiddle music!

Block 5 will begin on Weds 18th September and bookings are now open via the Shop. Our Saturday workshop will be held on 12th October in Wylam Methodist Church.

Our NEFS Winter Residential 2024 is now open for bookings – see below!

NEFS Winter Residential 2024

Fri 29th Nov – Sun 1st Dec 2024

We are delighted to be holding another NEFS Winter Residential weekend at Shepherds Dene.

Bookings now open!
Select the package that contains the events you wish to attend, residential or non-residential, daytime or evening.

Join us for workshops on fiddle technique, learn new tunes, and join in with sessions with a warm and welcoming community of adult fiddle players.

Stewart Hardy, Grace Smith and Kevin Lees will be our wonderful tutors for the weekend.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024

Wow! What a weekend! Huge thanks to everyone who was able to join us and be part of our NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024. It was lovely to see so many come together with such a positive attitude and eagerness to learn, and it was wonderful to hear all our fiddles ringing out together.

Thank you for the support – it really couldn’t happen without you! We are so privileged to have such excellent tutors, Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith. They worked extremely hard beforehand on all the preparation, and delivered on the day with outstanding skill and good humour. Thank you, both, so very much! We also want to thank our friends in Woolsington Strings for coming along on Saturday evening and sharing such lovely tune arrangements with everyone.

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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 our for our winter Residential Weekends, our brand new Summer Workshop Weekend, as well as occasional Virtual Workouts 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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