North East Fiddle School
The North East Fiddle School strives to provide the very highest quality of fiddle tuition. A safe and nurturing learning environment encourages participants to improve both as fiddle players and musicians, increasing their stylistic awareness and appreciation of a strong fiddle tradition. Technique, style, musicianship and ensemble are covered through progressive, weekly classes.
We work with extremely talented tutors, who are committed to the highest standards of fiddle tuition and professionalism and who seek to develop their own skills and practice. This allows us to celebrate the full fiddle tradition of the North East of England through teaching its repertoire and tunes. By offering tuition in other regional styles we will raise awareness of the differences between, and commonality within fiddle traditions. We aim to continue to develop the local fiddle tradition by embracing all aspects of fiddle playing and through the encouraging of the creation of new works. This will be showcased through concerts and community events, and enhanced through links with other regional musical centres.
Directors: Stewart Hardy & Ali Say
Administrator: Ali Say
Current Tutors: Stewart Hardy, Grace Smith, Kevin Lees, Niles Kreiger & Chris Meredith
Guest and Previous Tutors: Sophy Ball, Melissa Whitehead & Jim Boyle
Upcoming Events
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2025 Block 1 Online
January 15 - February 12
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- October 1, 2024
- February 21, 2024
- December 12, 2023
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🎻 Happy New Year!We start back on Zoom for NEFS 2025 Block 1 tomorrow (Weds 15th Jan) and bookings are open now! Stewart Hardy Music and Grace Smith Music will be teaching on Zoom, in video tutorials, and in person at our Saturday workshop. We are also revising a wonderful video tutorial from Kevin Lees - Music - see below for details 😊
This block, we will be taking a closer look at 3/2 Hornpipe and related tunes. Grace will be providing video tuition on Woodstock Bower, a fabulous 3/2 hornpipe with echoes of both the village green and the courtly dances which she picked up from the wonderful English folk band, Leveret. Stewart's video tuition looks at Jack Lintel’s Jig which, despite its name, is another belting 3/2 hornpipe from the Northumbrian manuscript of William Vickers and which is hauntingly reminiscent of the Jacobite song, Come Ye Awa’ frae France. The revision video is provided by Kevin Lees. His tuition on the slängpolska, Polska från Småland, was very well received last year and the form has many similarities to the 3/2 hornpipe. We are reintroducing the video and will bring it into our Live Tune repertoire. Grace is also bringing a wonderful slip jig to the Live Tune repertoire. Andrew Carr's has been around at least since the 18th Century and is popular in all the traditions of these islands. Consequently, there are a wide variety of versions and the one Grace has chosen is particular suited to the fiddle. We will support all this fabulous repertoire with some well chosen exercises for our Wednesday evening technique sessions on Zoom. 🎻
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NEFS Winter Residential 2024Wow! 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 Music and Kevin Lees - Music, whose artistry and professionalism were of the highest order and whose contribution to the weekend quite surpassed our unreasonably high expectations!
Thank you all - have a wonderful break over Christmas and we hope you can join us again in the new year 🎄❄️🎶 ... See MoreSee Less
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