NEFS Winter Residential 2025 – Resources
Fri 5th – Sun 7th Dec 2025
Resources
See below for the details and the individual files. If you would like to download everything in one go (except the Live Tunes), you can use this file:
NEFS Winter Res Workshops – zip
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Saturday Workshops
Balquhidder Lasses – with Stewart Hardy
Audio files
Zip File of pdfs and audio files for download
- Balquhidder Lasses – zip file
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Trip to Bury – with Grace Smith
- Trip to Bury (pdf)
Audio files
Zip File of pdfs and audio files for download
- Trip to Bury – zip file
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Sunday Workshops
Workshop 1: Themes
These are the Live Tunes that will be used to explore the themes covered (pdfs).
You can use the Live Tunes Document plus Elliot’s, or the individual pdfs below.
– for audio, see the Live Teaching Resources page.
- Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald)
- L’air mignonne (Simon Riopel)
- John Walsh’s Polka
- Polska from Småland
- Repeal the Poll Tax (Sandy Mathers)
- Thème Vannetais (Twiglet)
Workshop 2: Harmony
- NEFS Winter Residential – Harmony Workshop (pdf)
- La valse de Noël (Bruno Le Tron)
- Once I Loved a Maiden Fair (Playford Dancing Master, 1651)
Session
The session elements of each day will include tunes from our Live Teaching repertoire. All of the materials for our Live Tunes and Live Tunes Sets are available on the Live Teaching Resources page.
Latest NEFS Live Tunes updates: December 2025 – up to and including tunes from 2025 Blocks 6 Live Teaching. The most recent Live Tune Sets document is April 2024.
Some Live Tune Harmonies – just for fun, if you want to try them!
You might also find this updated Index of NEFS Live Tunes and Sets helpful!
The Big Tunes
– Tunes we will definitely play lots over the weekend!
- Bob & Joan / Cuckold Came Out of the Amery (Live Tune Sets p5)
- Elliot Finn MacDonald (Finlay MacDonald)
- Josefin’s Dopvals (Roger Tallroth)
- L’air mignonne (Simon Riopel)
- Yule Sea (Frankie Cleeve)
If you are fairly new to our session material, this is a selection of tunes that we will definitely play, so if you want to have a look in advance, this will be a good place to start. Audio files for you to listen to, and even Zoom Call Recordings of these tunes being taught phrase by phrase, are available on the NEFS Live Teaching Resources page