Summer Fiddle Weekend - Intermediate and Advanced

Our Summer Fiddle Weekend is dedicated to developing your fiddle playing through a range of repertoire and a deep dive into fiddle technique. We want you to go home with ideas and skills that you can implement into your playing for years to come!

We’re delighted to welcome the amazing team of Sam Sweeney and Miranda Rutter to work with any player who considers themself to be playing at an intermediate or advanced level.

If you are a beginner or an improver, check out our Beginners and Improvers Course instead – same dates, same place.

In addition to all the course content and wisdom that Sam and Miranda will impart, you’ll be welcome to use our extensive folk library to discover tunes that you’d like to work on. There will be plenty of time to play together on this intensive weekend of workshops for fiddle players.

Who is it for?

This is an intensive weekend for adult fiddle players who consider themselves to be at Level 3 or 4 in their playing journey. Check our Fiddle Playing Levels if you’re not sure whether that’s you.

The Team

Nominated four times, and winner in 2015, of Musician Of The Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam Sweeney has been at the forefront of the revival in English music for the last fifteen years. He is a veteran of the mighty Bellowhead, former and inaugural Artistic Director of the National Youth Folk Ensemble, a founder member of ground-breaking trio Leveret as well as a passionate and experienced educator. He has collaborated, recorded and performed with The Full English, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Fay Hield and Emily Portman as well as creating his own theatre production Made In The Great War. Sam’s previous releases, The Unfinished Violin (Island Records) and Unearth Repeat (Hudson Records) were received with international acclaim.

Miranda Rutter is a fiddle and viola player, composer, and educator. She is a founder member of the folk string quartet Methera and a much sought-after tutor, having being involved with many National Youth Folk Ensemble courses and as part of the English Acoustic Collective Summer School team.