The session is every other Wednesday at the Nova Scotia, Cumberland Basin, immediately on the south side of an old small iron bridge over Cumberland Basin Harbour. Free parking available outside pub (if there's room) or in public dockside car park on the opposite side of the road.
Sessions start at 8pm for beginners (fiddles), usually led by Gill Newlyn a local teacher and master fiddler, and continue on from 9pm for everyone else. Usually in a large upper room. Upwards of 30 musicians of all standards can be there, so early arrival is advised! Usually a large number of fiddles, but other instruments can sometimes be spotted if you look hard. There will be a session on 19 February 2003, and fortnightly thereafter, so you'll have to work out the fortnights from that date. I haven't got contact details yet, but I'll post them as soon as I can. If I become aware of any changes in the fortnightly dates I'll try to post them here.
How to find the Nova Scotia.
Leaving Bristol Centre, proceed along Anchor Road and Hotwells Road in a generally westerly direction heading for Weston-super-Mare. Going along Hotwells Road you'll have the harbour on your left and then shops and businesses for a few hundred yards. The road then swings sharp left at traffic lights into a oneway system. Keep in the left hand lane and go over an old iron bridge you can see a couple of hundred yards ahead of you. The bridge is over part of Cumberland Basin Harbour. The Nova Scotia pub is on the corner facing you as you come off the bridge.
Gill Newlyn has done her final session at the Nova Scotia, much to everyone's sorrow. She's leaving Bristol to live in Kenmare, Co Kerry - see her web site http://www.kerryfiddles.com for further details.
Gill will be greatly missed, for she's had an enormous influence in Irish fiddle music in Bristol over at least the last decade, but the fortnightly session at the Nova Scotia is continuing, with, it is hoped, a regular fiddle teacher from September onwards.
Regrettably, this session is now no more; a session that, in its "beginners" section has introduced probably hundreds of fiddle players to Irish music over the last decade or more, and has provided a superb fortnightly session for the intermediate and advanced players, as well as sponsoring, through Gill Newlyn, fiddle workshops by masters such as Kevin Burke, Brendan McGlinchey, Paul O'Shaughnessy, and many others.
In recent weeks, attempts to revive a midweek 'beginners' (and others) session at The Bear. Not really taken off yet, (summer hols?) - but maybe with onset of winter? http://www.geocities.com/spokulator36/bear_weds.html
The session is every other Wednesday at the Nova Scotia, Cumberland Basin, immediately on the south side of an old small iron bridge over Cumberland Basin Harbour. Free parking available outside pub (if there's room) or in public dockside car park on the opposite side of the road.
Sessions start at 8pm for beginners (fiddles), usually led by Gill Newlyn a local teacher and master fiddler, and continue on from 9pm for everyone else. Usually in a large upper room. Upwards of 30 musicians of all standards can be there, so early arrival is advised! Usually a large number of fiddles, but other instruments can sometimes be spotted if you look hard. There will be a session on 19 February 2003, and fortnightly thereafter, so you'll have to work out the fortnights from that date. I haven't got contact details yet, but I'll post them as soon as I can. If I become aware of any changes in the fortnightly dates I'll try to post them here.
How to find the Nova Scotia.
Leaving Bristol Centre, proceed along Anchor Road and Hotwells Road in a generally westerly direction heading for Weston-super-Mare. Going along Hotwells Road you'll have the harbour on your left and then shops and businesses for a few hundred yards. The road then swings sharp left at traffic lights into a oneway system. Keep in the left hand lane and go over an old iron bridge you can see a couple of hundred yards ahead of you. The bridge is over part of Cumberland Basin Harbour. The Nova Scotia pub is on the corner facing you as you come off the bridge.
# Posted on February 12th 2003 by lazyhound
Gill Newlyn has done her final session at the Nova Scotia, much to everyone's sorrow. She's leaving Bristol to live in Kenmare, Co Kerry - see her web site http://www.kerryfiddles.com for further details.
Gill will be greatly missed, for she's had an enormous influence in Irish fiddle music in Bristol over at least the last decade, but the fortnightly session at the Nova Scotia is continuing, with, it is hoped, a regular fiddle teacher from September onwards.
# Posted on June 27th 2004 by lazyhound
Nova Scotia Pub (Bristol, England)
Regrettably, this session is now no more; a session that, in its "beginners" section has introduced probably hundreds of fiddle players to Irish music over the last decade or more, and has provided a superb fortnightly session for the intermediate and advanced players, as well as sponsoring, through Gill Newlyn, fiddle workshops by masters such as Kevin Burke, Brendan McGlinchey, Paul O'Shaughnessy, and many others.
Trevor
# Posted on March 19th 2005 by lazyhound
Moved to 'The Bear' Hotwell Road ?
In recent weeks, attempts to revive a midweek 'beginners' (and others) session at The Bear. Not really taken off yet, (summer hols?) - but maybe with onset of winter?
http://www.geocities.com/spokulator36/bear_weds.html
# Posted on October 18th 2005 by Col Arco