NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2025

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July 2025

Join us for two days of folk fiddle workshops for adults with Stewart Hardy, Niles Krieger and Grace Smith. Each day can be booked separately or you can book both together as they will be complimentary but not dependent upon each other. There will be a shared evening on the Saturday with an informal concert by local a community group, Tyneside Fiddle Alliance, followed by a session for everyone.

• Saturday 29th June, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm @ Wylam Methodist Church with Stewart Hardy and Niles Krieger
• Saturday Evening Social – an informal concert by Tyneside Fiddle Alliance followed by a session for everyone. 7.30 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall
• Sunday 30th June, 9.30 am to 4.00 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith

Book now via the NEFS Shop.
Each workshop day is £50 and includes all tuition, full resources and refreshments in the breaks (lunch is not included)
Book both SWW workshop days for £95.
Saturday evening: Free Entry – donations gratefully received

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024 – Sunday

Ways into Chords and Harmony

with Stewart Hardy & Grace Smith

Sunday 30th June
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Riding Mill Parish Hall, Millfield Rd, Riding Mill NE44 6DJ

One of the many wonderful things about folk fiddle is playing with other fiddles in harmony and the sound of massed strings! If you would like the chance to explore how to do this – how to play harmony lines, how to begin creating your own, how to accompany other players – then this is the workshop for you. Grace and Stewart will be teaching us tunes, and will bring suggestions for harmonies, as well as giving the chance to explore other ideas to create a wonderfully rich fiddle sound. We would love people to come and learn the tunes and will need tune players as well as harmony players, so whatever your experience of harmony lines there will be something for you.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024
£47 per day,  or book both for £90

• Saturday 29th June – Ways into Dance Grooves, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm @ Wylam Methodist Church
• Saturday Evening Social – an informal concert by Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone. 7.30 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall
• Sunday 30th June – Ways into Chords and Harmony, 9.30 am to 4.00 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall

Join us for two days of folk fiddle workshops for adults with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith. Each day can be booked separately or you can book both together as they will be complimentary but not dependent upon each other. There will be a shared evening on the Saturday with an informal concert by local string ensemble, Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone.

Full NEFS SWW 2024 information here, and bookings available from the Shop.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024

Save the date!

Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June

Join us for two days of folk fiddle workshops for adults with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith. Each day can be booked separately (£47 each) or you can book both together as they will be complimentary but not dependent upon each other. There will be a shared evening on the Saturday with an informal concert by local string ensemble, Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone.

• Saturday 29th June – Ways into Dance Grooves, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm @ Wylam Methodist Church
• Saturday Evening Social – an informal concert by Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone. 7.30 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall
• Sunday 30th June – Ways into Chords and Harmony, 9.30 am to 4.00 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall

View the separate events for each day for details, or visit the NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024 information page.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024 – Saturday

Ways into Dance Grooves

with Stewart Hardy & Grace Smith

Saturday 29th June
9.30 am – 5.00 pm
Wylam Methodist Church, Chapel Lane, Wylam NE41 8AA

Learn some great dance tunes with all the relevant fiddle technique for making them come alive and dance off the page. Grace and Stewart will each teach a tune, and look at bowing and any helpful ornaments to create a dance groove. We will explore what we mean by dance grooves, and will finish the day with a session of our core NEFS repertoire.

NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend 2024
£47 per day,  or book both for £90

• Saturday 29th June – Ways into Dance Grooves, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm @ Wylam Methodist Church
• Saturday Evening Social – an informal concert by Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone. 7.30 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall
• Sunday 30th June – Ways into Chords and Harmony, 9.30 am to 4.00 pm @ Riding Mill Parish Hall

Join us for two days of folk fiddle workshops for adults with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith. Each day can be booked separately or you can book both together as they will be complimentary but not dependent upon each other. There will be a shared evening on the Saturday with an informal concert by local string ensemble, Woolsington Strings, followed by a session for everyone.

Full NEFS SWW 2024 information here, and bookings available from the Shop.