NEFS Winter Residential 2026!
We are very happy indeed to be holding another NEFS Winter Residential at the beautiful Shepherds Dene in December. Bookings are now open – see the web page for all the details and make your booking in the Shop.
*Just 5 places remaining!
NEFS Winter Residential 2026: Fri 4th – Sun 6th December
Shepherds Dene, Northumberland
with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith
Fri 5.00 pm – Sun 12.45 pm
After another wonderful Winter Residential last year, we are very much looking forward to doing it all again! Grace Smith and Stewart Hardy are such a fantastic teaching double act, supporting and complementing each other, and we are so very lucky to have them sharing another full weekend of tuition with us. We are also delighted that the wonderful Sophy Ball will be with us on the Saturday evening to share some music! Join us for a wonderful, cozy weekend of fiddle technique, tunes and friendship!
You can book your place now via the NEFS Shop – many packages available to suit!
See all the details here!
NEFS Summer Workout Weekend 2026
We had another wonderful weekend in July at our Summer Workshop Weekend in Riding Mill. Stewart and Grace were fabulous tutors, and we were delighted that our talented friends in local fiddle quartet, Bottle Bank Band, came and played a concert for us on the Saturday evening. This was followed by an informal tunes session, which was a lovely way to end the day, and set us up for our second day of fiddle tuition. We can’t wait to do it again next year!
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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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✨ One week to go until our in-person Saturday Workshop with two fabulous tutors Stewart Hardy Music and Sophy Jess Ball 🤩Two great new tunes to work on, exercises to improve fiddle technique and lots of tunes to play together in the session to end the day! We can take a few more people now we are in a larger room, so do check out the NEFS website for details and to book - we'd love you to join us!
🎻 Sat 3rd October, 10 am - 5pm, Riding Mill Parish Hall.
Here we are, working with Grace at our Summer Workshop Weekend in July!
📅 It's Week 1 of Block 5, and we will be starting our weekly fiddle practice Zoom calls on Wednesday!🎻 Join our wonderful community of adult fiddle players, and be supported as you improve your fiddle technique and learn some new tunes with our fabulour tutors.
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