- A five week course of fully-online fiddle tuition, accessible on Zoom and YouTube from anywhere and at any time.
- In-depth sets of Video Tutorials, which include elements of technique, tunes taught by the phrase and a detailed look at bowing, ornamentation or stylistic interpretation.
- Wednesday evening live Zoom calls, 6.45 – 8.30 pm, including Fiddle Practice and Tune Learning in the Zoom workshop, plus playthroughs of previous tunes which form our core repertoire.
- Recordings of all Zoom calls available for catch-up on demand.
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🎻 After a little rest, we are keen to get started again and Block 6 begins on Wednesday! If you'd like to join us for regular, weekly fiddle practice and to learn some great tunes with ideas on how to bring out the best in them, you can sign up now on the NEFS website.All the materials for Week 1 are now available and we look forward to seeing you on Zoom! If you can't make it live, the call recordings will be available afterwards, and we also have video tutorials for you to work through at your own pace. Stewart Hardy Music and Grace Smith Music have some great tunes for us, and are both such highly skilled tutors that they make it easy for us to improve our playing! Get in touch if you have any questions!😊
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🎻🎄 NEFS Winter Residential 2025We are delighted to be holding another Winter Residential Weekend at the lovely Shepherds Dene Retreat Centre on 5th – 7th December 2025. We are planning a relaxed social weekend, with lots of fiddle playing, including our regular Saturday Workshop day with Stewart Hardy and Grace Smith.
Stewart and Grace will also be with us all weekend, joining in with the sessions, providing inspiration and support, and teaching extra workshops on the Sunday morning.
You can come just for the Saturday workshop, or add dinner and the evening sessions, the Sunday morning workshops, and bed & breakfast on either or both nights - entirely up to you! Details of all the options are on the website. We hope you can join us 🥰
Our Summer Workshop Weekend is coming up at the end of next week. Saturday is currently fully booked, but do get in touch if you are keen to come, in case of any cancellations. There are spaces available for Sunday, which promises to be a lovely day for fiddle tuition from Stewart Hardy Music and Grace Smith Music.Advanced booking required - sign up on the website!
