Specialties
Fiddler/teacher/composer/children's dance instructor Hope Hoffman offers introductory fiddle lessons through advanced coaching. An experienced writer/dance teacher/choreographer, Hope's live, original dance CDs are at www.cdbaby.com/Artist/HopeHoffman.
A professional musician and music teacher since 2001, Hope performs solo/ensemble fiddle for festivals, restaurants, weddings, dances, and events. She teaches fiddle for ages 3 1/2 -adult, with a creative teaching style inspired by Montessori experience.
Hope's sessions of Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance with Live Music at children's museums, libraries, schools and festivals, combine fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance. She has been self-employed since 1999 as a performing artist and teacher.
History
Established in 1999.
Sampling of previous performances (full list at www.hopehoffman.org/stringbandprevious.htm):
Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance with Live Music at Stewart Free Library in Corinna, Maine.
Strolling fiddle music, including tunes for a children's parade, at Celebrate Bowdoinham festival.
Solo acoustic fiddle for the Annual Christmas Service & Community Carol Sing, at Old West Bath Meeting House. Info at (207) 443-4342.
Series of Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance with Live Music sessions at Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine.
Acoustic concert at Schoolhouse Arts Center in Standish, Maine.
Concert of country duet songs & fiddling at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, as part of the "Down Home at the Gardens" dinner and auction.
Contra dance at Colby College in Waterville, Maine .
Meet the Business Owner: Hope H.
Hope Hoffman has been teaching, performing, and composing fiddle music since 2001, focusing on local folk techniques and melodies, and drawing on her early training in classical violin. Her creative and engaging teaching style is inspired by her experience as a dance teacher, Montessori student, and Montessori assistant teacher.
Hope performs solo and ensemble fiddle/viola for downtown festivals, restaurants, weddings, dances, and community gatherings.
Her sessions of creative movement with live fiddle music for parents and children have been popular programs at the Bowdoinham Community School, public libraries, and children's museums.
Hope's fiddle compositions and CDs are closely linked to Maine's landscape, agriculture and traditional music; she has also produced a collection of field recordings of old favorite Maine contra dance tunes.
You can hear audio samples online, and purchase copies online or at Free Grange retail partners in Maine.