News from Hope Hoffman & Free Grange Productions, August 25, 2010
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~ * ~ Music Lessons AT DOWNTOWN STUDIOS IN PORTLAND, ROCKLAND, BOWDOINHAM, & FARMINGTON * *Fiddle lessons in Portland, fall session starts October 19* Hope Hoffman offers violin/fiddle lessons in downtown Portland, Bowdoinham, Farmington, and Rockland. Each studio location has its own parking lot and waiting rooms. Hope teaches private lessons (children ages 3-5 with parents, for ages 5 and up, and for adult students at all levels including beginners) and small group classes (2-3 students). To make an appointment for a lesson, you can call (207)
332-3459 or e-mail
via www.hopehoffman.org. Free Grange Music Studio in Bowdoinham offers lessons in: Fiddle/Violin, Piano, Guitar, Mandolin, Concertina, Banjo. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Purchase Recordings *
Acoustic
Artisans in Portland, * Sheet
music for compositions on the CD "Infinite
Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music" can be printed from
www.hopehoffman.org/kittlishtunebook.htm
* Audio samples of original
compositions ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Planning Ahead & KEEPING IN TOUCH * * Link to Online Booking Form for Event Planners * We're still accepting bookings for festivals, parties and weddings throughout 2010 and 2011. I’m also available for public performances, dance music and house concerts, and a program called the Kids' Dance Party, a 45-minute session of informal creative movement games and folk dances, all with live fiddle/guitar music. You can print a small flyer to keep handy and give to friends. Contributions of a brief quote/reference about my work, or photos/video of an event you’ve attended, are gratefully welcomed! They can be sent via e-mail or to P.O. Box 171, Bowdoinham, ME 04008. If you know someone who’d like to be added to the mailing list, sent out only 4 times each year, they can sign up here. Print and share flyers for music lessons and posters for music events
A complete calendar of upcoming events is at www.hopehoffman.org/calendar.htm. Enjoy! Warm wishes, Hope ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Read Reviews * Live, original CD of New England fiddle Concert of country duet with Jim Tolles Parent-child creative folk dance with live music Recording project with The Mutineers ~ * ~ RECENT PROJECTS & PERFORMANCES: * [link to video of Hope playing at the Colby College contra dance] "Tidbits Fiddle n' Farm" series of affordable, family-friendly, acoustic lunchtime concerts with free samples of local food. Solo fiddle and Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance at Rising Tide Community Market's grand opening Contra dances and concerts with Tamora Goltz and David Stimson in Portland and Rockland Solo concert of original New Maine Fiddle Music, storytelling and traditional tunes, at Punkinfiddle festival Bowdoinham contra dance with the Cathance River Ramblers Link to résumé of past performances 2001-2009 ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~
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* To be on our mailing list (sent out just 4 times per year), you can sign up here for our quarterly e-mail newsletter. ~ * ~ Upcoming Events * A full calendar and details about upcoming events is at www.hopehoffman.org/calendar.htm. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ New Teaching Studios In fall 2010, Hope is expanding her teaching to direct a full-time teaching studio in Portland. The studio is part of a new arts center, located at 29 Baxter Blvd. (at Preble, near Hannafords). The arts center has plenty of parking, plus a lobby and receptionist, and the studio has a nice window and lots of space. Since 2009, Hope has directed a full-time studio space and art gallery on Bowdoinham's Main Street. The studio is locaed a tenth of a mile from the waterfront and Town Landing restaurant, and easy walking distance to the library and hiking trails. It's shaped like a miniature grange hall, with four large windows and a high ceiling; the acoustics are wonderful. The space is very family-friendly, including a waiting room with crayons and books, for family members to spend time in during lessons. Hope offers bi-weekly and monthly lessons in fiddle/violin, for ages 3-adult; all levels including beginner, including coaching in improvisation, bowing technique, and phrasing. She has been teaching fiddle music in Maine since 2001, and has training in both classical and folk style techniques. To make an appointment for a lesson, you can call (207) 332-3459 or, for quicker replies, e-mail via www.hopehoffman.org. Directions to the studios are at www.hopehoffman.org. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance WITH LIVE MUSIC * Dance with your child to live music, learning simple steps and enjoying plenty of imagination for structured creative movement, singing games, and free dance for parent-child pairs. All with live, traditional fiddle music ~ lyrical waltzes to upbeat jigs. The basic length of this program is 45 minutes; the addition of Hope's brief lecture-demo about fiddle music can extend the program to 60 minutes. If your venue has more than one group of participants, the program can be arranged as two or three consecutive sessions of 30 minutes each. Link to details at www.hopehoffman.org/workshops.htm Hope Hoffman has been a freelance dance teacher since 1999 and a full-time performer including fiddle music since 2001. Her sessions of music and dance for children have been presented at the Children's Museum of Maine in Portland, Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor, and the Long Island Children's Museum in New York. Her audio clips and résumé are at www.hopehoffman.org. "It isn't just any musician/dance leader who can keep a bunch of kids singing, dancing and having fun for 45 minutes. The very talented Hope Hoffman did just that. "She is focused, enthusiastic,
flexible and responsive. She was also warm and inviting, and kept the
group on track with gentleness and skill. All of us had a great time."
~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ Free Grange SUPPORTING & PROMOTING LOCAL FOOD THROUGH MUSIC * Enjoy fiddle music, food and community dances organized by Free Grange (www.freegrange.org), a project designed to support the success and popularity of fresh, neighborly food sources through music. Free Grange Productions offers partnerships to organizations seeking to raise funds and increase public awareness of their own food-related projects. Partnerships can involve community events such as barn dances and public suppers, retail of Free Grange™ products such as CDs and artwork, and live music to enhance the enjoyment of meals at restaurants, house parties and family events.
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(207) 332-3459 ~ E-mail ~ PO Box 171, Bowdoinham, ME 04008 ~ www.hopehoffman.org
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Bowdoinham String Band Traditional
acoustic music for Styles range from lyrical
waltzes to toe-tapping tunes, and include Irish and Scottish, French
Canadian, American roots from the South and West, English and Welsh, and Scandinavian. Solo violin/fiddle |
Hope Hoffman & Jim Tolles Vocal and fiddle music featuring songs from the Carter Family, bluegrass, country duet, and Appalachian folk heritage. Duo available for concerts, dances, parties and events. Focusing on the traditions of vocal and fiddle music, and incorporating their original, roots-based songs and instrumental compositions. Hope Hoffman contributes her zippy, precise fiddle stylings and high, pure vocals. Jim Tolles, former Capitol and Rounder recording artist, adds guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals. |
Kittlish Presenting
Hope Hoffman's original fiddle and viola tunes We're called upon mainly for concerts, dances and parties. Hope Hoffman, fiddle, viola, voice Hugh McGinness, cittern, crosstuned guitar and, if we're lucky, jaw harp Larry Burkett, guitar |
Hope Hoffman & Jim Berrier With vigor, nuance and good humor, high-energy tunes for contra dances and barn dances. Jim Berrier got his rhythm chops on guitar and harmonica accompanying longtime dance harmonica player Fred Legere at the Norlands Living History Center's barn dances. Fred's repertoire is based on Don Messer's. Later on, Hope played
the Norlands dances Then, one evening, Jim and Hope showed up to play for the same dance. Jim had forgotten his guitar so he played the spoons. The next time, he brought his guitar. So, a new duo was born! |
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