All About It...

Host an Event for your organization's profit and publicity, and/or for the joy of doing neighborly community activities

Retail Free Grange™ Products for your organization's profit

Press Kit with audio, news release and newspaper photos

Food Links fresh, delicious, convenient and full of good cheer

Download information about CD as pdf file

Join in the Fun!

Come to an Event including concerts, dances, suppers and classes. Enjoy live music, good food and good company

Buy Free Grange™ Music and Artwork from stores, organizations and farms which support local food and community

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Download a Flyer to share and advertise events in your area

Related Events of similar organizations

Listen to fiddle music & Look at scrapbook photos

Past Events such as concerts and community events by Hope Hoffman

Free Grange Productions supports local foods by offering flexible and professional music events, related merchandise & and promotional partnerships to farms, restaurants, towns and food-related businesses.

Organizations supporting local farms can retail Free Grange™ CDs and visual art, adding a profitable and promotional dimension to their merchandise and marketing.

Missions:

* Invigorate, support, and promote groups which focus on social, logistial and political connections for local farmers and eaters

* Provide local entertainment at rural venues such as grange halls, town halls and community centers

* Share the beauty, vitality and playfulness of Hope Hoffman's fiddle music performances and recordings, and her visual artwork relating to food and community

Easy Recipes using local ingredients and very basic cooking

Get in Touch to share ideas and ask questions

Contact: Hope Hoffman

PO Box 171, Bowdoinham, Maine 04008

(207) 332-3459

E-mail

Mailing List

www.hopehoffman.org

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Listen here to a traditional fiddle tune, and here to a traditional fiddle tune on viola (recordings © Hope Hoffman 2007)

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Listen to a song Hope wrote, "Jenny Jenkins Eats Her Vegetables," recorded live at its debut at Hope Hoffman & Kittlish's CD release concert at One Longfellow Square in Portland.

Free Grange™ products and events are currently partnered with:

Café Bon-Bon in Lewiston, Maine

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine

Fresh off the Farm in Rockport, Maine

Good Tern Co-Op in Rockland, Maine

Maine State Grange's Saco Grange #53 in Saco, Maine

Organization For Transformative Farming based in Portland, Maine

Royal River Natural Foods in Freeport, Maine

Willow Pond Farm in Sabattus, Maine

Bath Farmer's Market in Bath, Maine

and we're planning events and retailing with
farmer's markets, downtown associations, farms, stores, restaurants, families and other groups throughout New England.

Listen to audio of the house band for dances,
Hope Hoffman (fiddle) and Jim Berrier (guitar)

Website design and content © Hope Hoffman 2008

Events include
some combination of:

Potluck

Catered meal of local foods

Snacks featuring the work of local farmers and bakers

Cafe- or bean supper- style tables and chairs to hang around at and enjoy food and good company

Live music for listening & dancing

Concerts of fiddle music & songs

Dance instruction (styles may include waltz, circle, square, polka, old-time country, Cajun, swing)

Information table with representatives of the hosting organization and farmers' business cards

Creative movement & folk dance for children

Past Partnerships include:

Maine State Grange's Victor Grange in Fairfield, Maine

The Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine

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