It’s time for another set of Zoom workshops! Friday 15th December in the evening for a play-along session, and Saturday 16th December for two fiddle workshops, at 10 am and 2 pm. These are always great fun! It’s lovely to see everyone on the screen, coming together to play-along with some of my favourite tunes…
NEFS Winter Residential 2023
NEFS Residential WeekendFri 1st Dec, 5pm – Sun 3rd Dec, 11.30 amShepherds Dene Retreat Centre After enjoying the December residential weekend last year, and with all the lovely feedback received, we have decided to repeat the event. We are delighted to be returning to Shepherds Dene Retreat Centre near Riding Mill in Northumberland and look…
TFA Annual Concert 2023
Tyneside Fiddle Alliance – Annual Concert Saturday 18th November, 7.00 pm Tyneside Fiddle Alliance will be celebrating their first months in their new home at St George’s Church Hall in Jesmond with a concert in St George’s Church. A lovely evening of tunes in the Northumbrian tradition, played by our community fiddle group in harmony….
NEFS Summer Workshop Weekend
NEFS Summer Workshop WeekendSaturday 8th and Sunday 9th July 2023 We are delighted to announce that Grace Smith will be teaching alongside Stewart Hardy for this weekend, and the wonderful Frank McLaughlin will be coming down from Edinburgh with his guitar to join Stewart for an informal concert & session on the Saturday evening. The…
Stop Press! Bottle Bank Band Concert
Bottle Bank Band are delighted to have been asked to play at St Mary’s Heritage Centre for their Heritage Evening on Tuesday 6th June. Doors open at 6.30 pm for refreshments, and pre-booking is essential. St Mary’s has been our spiritual home since our very first concert, and there’s a chance this might be our…
The Tune Vault
Introducing The Tune Vault on the YouTube channel!https://www.youtube.com/@stewarthardymusic A chance to enjoy and even learn some of my favourite tunes, that I love playing for my own enjoyment. Many of these are from the English tradition, and on occasion I will bring in repertoire from around the UK and Ireland, the continent of Europe and…
Edibnurgh Folk Club with Frank McLaughlin
We were very much looking forward Edinburgh Folk Club, after dusting off our arrangements and discovering new insights and approaches. Many thanks to the good folks at Banana Row Studios for providing space for our rehearsals in Edinburgh. And it didn’t disappoint! We had a great time and received a very warm welcome at the…
JSArts courses for 2022
We have begun the year in great style, with a delightful Arrangement Techniques course in February, and a very productive and enjoyable Fiddle Technique course in March, both at the beautiful Rydal Hall. Next we have an Advanced Fiddle Technique course, which is an intensive course designed to further improve the technique of already proficient…
Summer Dance – video tutorial
If you have been thinking about signing up for the live Zoom fiddle workshops this month, but weren’t sure about how Stewart goes about teaching tune, you might want to check out this video tutorial recorded last July. It’s a lovely, bouncy English jig, and Stewart introduces different types of bowing patterns with short exercises…
May Workshops 2021
The weekend workshops that have been running every couple of months or so have been very enjoyable, and as we can’t quite run workshops in person yet they are a great way to continue playing and learning. Friday’s evening play-along session is open to all instruments, and the notation (with harmony and chord suggestions) and…
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NEFS Block 3 starts this week!Sign up now 🎻We have a new block starting on Zoom this week!
Join us for our five weekly Wednesday evening Zoom sessions starting on 24th April with video tutorials on demand, and/or our in-person workshop in Wylam on Saturday 11th May. Bookings now open!
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More details are available on the Classes page of the NEFS website. Get in touch with Ali if you have any questions 😊
🎶 This block we have two more fabulous video tutorials, both English jigs collected in the middle of the nineteenth century from “Wheelwright Robinson” of Abbots Bromley, Flaxley Green Dance from Stewart Hardy Music and, of course, The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, this one from Kevin Lees - Music. Grace Smith Music will be teaching alongside Stewart on our Zoom calls, and will be introducing a lovely Shetland jig as our new live tune.
We are also delighted to announce that Chris Meredith will be teaching with Stewart on our Saturday Workshop in Wylam on 11th May. Chris is a wonderful player and teacher, and was the force behind FiddleTutor.com with some wonderful online tutorials.
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🎧🎻🎹 Our next set of Zoom workshops is this weekend, on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th April. Each workshop can be booked individually, and all will be available on-demand after the weekend. Book now on the website!There will be lots of favourite tunes with harmonies and chords provided for the Friday evening play-along session. All instruments are welcome, and alternate clefs or keys for transposing instruments can be provided on request. Then on Saturday in the fiddle workshops, we'll be looking at a fabulous north east tune by Geroge Mitchell of the Cheviot Ranters, call Geordie's Rant, in the morning. In the afternoon, it will be the turn of Shrewsbury Lasses, one of the classic country dance tunes of the English repertoire. Full resources including audio files and a worksheet are provided.
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There will be lots of fascinating facts and insights into the life and times of William Shield, presented by Dr Amélie Addison on Saturday afternoon, illustrated with a few fiddle tunes! We'll be at the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum at 4pm.Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering
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