Composer and fiddler Hope Hoffman presents lively, inventive performances of original tunes and the traditional Maine music that inspired them.

She works as a soloist and recording artist, and with a variety of duos and ensembles including

Weddings & Events with the Bowdoinham String Band

Her musical style is noted for its evocative beauty and rough-and-tumble playfulness, with influences including Renaissance and early music and Maine dance fiddlers. Her rhythmic and lyrical repertoire features Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, Welsh and Scandinavian tunes.

Hope's four CDs include many new compositions and feature live performances in concerts and at dances.

Her first live album was described by longtime Maine fiddler and teacher Greg Boardman as "Pure New England fiddle music, proud of its rural past, relishing the present ... the feeling of a warm kitchen above a well-stocked root cellar ... The performances are inviting, warm, energized and straight ahead, with a bit of mischief thrown in."

Hope has been a freelance professional musician in Maine since 2001, providing imaginative charm and good old-fashioned fun for downtown festivals, contra and barn dances, restaurants, weddings, and community gatherings.

She is an experienced music and dance teacher for ages 3-adult, and in addition to fiddle instruction, leads sessions for children's museums and festivals featuring fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance.

Hope Hoffman's audio samples and sheet music for her original tunes are at www.hopehoffman.org.

For a résumé of previous music performances, please click here.

Printable photos available at www.hopehoffman.org/publicityphotos.htm

Short Version of Music Bio:

Known for her warm and personable performances, fiddler and singer Hope Hoffman has been a professional musician and music teacher in Maine since 2001, providing imaginative charm and good old-fashioned fun for downtown festivals, restaurants, weddings, and community gatherings. Her first live album of original tunes was described by Maine fiddler Greg Boardman as "inviting, warm, energized and straight ahead, with a bit of mischief thrown in." Hope teaches fiddle lessons, plays for contra dances, as well as solo fiddle for barn dances, and leads sessions for children's museums and festivals featuring fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance.

Hope Hoffman
E-mail
www.hopehoffman.org