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By Location
United States - United States United States - Maine

Links
Tune-of-the-Month sends you original compositions by Hope Hoffman Fiddler/composer Hope Hoffman Mailing List for Hope Hoffman Music Hope Hoffman & Jeff Trippe, fiddle/guitar/vocals Printable sheet music as a free PDF file

Hope Hoffman

BIOGRAPHY

Hope Hoffman has been a freelance professional musician, teacher and composer since 2001, providing imaginative charm and good old-fashioned fun for festivals, restaurants, weddings, and community gatherings. She often works as a soloist, and sings and plays with several bands in New England.

Hope also plays for contra dances, and leads sessions for children's museums and libraries featuring fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance.

She is the director of Free Grange Productions, Town Hall Theater Group, and Celebrations Dance Theater.

Audio samples, mailing list, resources for fiddle students, sheet music for her original tunes, and a calendar of events are at www.hopehoffman.org.


MUSIC

Cows Go Sailing: Live, Original Fiddle by Hope Hoffman
Release: 2010
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French, Irish and Scandinavian styles reflect the cultural landscape of fiddler/composer Hope Hoffman’s time in Maine, and her playful, ethereal and rootsy melodies come to life in this collection of concert recordings.
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Cows Go Sailing: Live, Original Fiddle Hope Hoffman
Fiddledancemusic: Field Recordings in Maine 2006-2008 by Hope Hoffman
Release: 2010
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Lets listeners in on the musical dialogue between fiddle and guitar, and also into the living rooms and dance halls where even more characters’ dialogue bounces between comic ruminations and the shouts, claps and stomps of dancers.
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Fiddledancemusic: Field Recordings in Maine 2006-2008 Hope Hoffman
Hoffman & Trippe by Hope Hoffman & Jeff Trippe
Release: 2010
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Celtic favorites by this adventurous, sensitive and subtly dramatic duo. With rich emotional textures, Hoffman and Trippe create elegant, spontaneous settings of popular Irish tunes and Hope Hoffman's fiddle compositions.
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Hoffman & Trippe Hope Hoffman & Jeff Trippe
Infinite Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music by Hope Hoffman & Kittlish
Release: 2007
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New Maine fiddle music: Live, acoustic original New England-style dance tunes written by dance fiddler, choreographer and playwright Hope Hoffman.
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Infinite Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music Hope Hoffman & Kittlish