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Her various bands include www.kittlish.com;
and a vocal and fiddle duo with Jim Tolles featuring songs from the Carter Family, bluegrass, country duet, and Appalachian folk heritage, plus roots-based originals
[www.hopehoffman.org/hoffman&tolles.htm];
as well as solo and recording work.

Audio samples, etc., are at
[www.hopehoffman.org]

Known for her warm and personable performances from Presque Isle to Manhattan and beyond, Hope Hoffman has been a professional musician in Maine for several years, sharing a rhythmic and lyrical repertoire including Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, Welsh and Scandinavian tunes in addition to her new compositions.

Maine fiddler Hope Hoffman presents lively and inventive performances of original tunes and the traditional Maine music which inspires them.

Her musical style is noted for its evocative beauty and rough-and-tumble playfulness, with influences including Maine dance fiddlers and early music.

Hope's collection of original fiddle tunes was written while living in Maine surrounded by a community of farmers, artists and other independent-minded people, exploring and appreciating the varied landscape and unique personality of Maine.

Reviews of her CD "Infinite Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music":

"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."
- Greg Boardman, longtime Maine fiddler and teacher

"Hope's waltzes ... convey an original sensibility, with particular passages which more hip reviewers might be inclined to call 'edgy,' and yet she has captured the sweetness of the waltz, that faraway quality which speaks to our instincts for things which exist simply for the sake of their own beauty."
- Jeff Trippe, reviewer for Mainefolkmusic.com

The stories behind the tunes are generally about farm foods, weather, and the related adventures of neighbors and friends.

Concerts and CD sales are often partnered with local food-related businesses and organizations through Free Grange™ Productions (www.freegrange.org).

A self-employed performer and teacher since 1999, Hope currently gives concerts, plays fiddle and viola for contra dances, as well as solo fiddle for barn dances, and provides imaginative charm and good old-fashioned fun to dozens of downtown festivals, restaurants, weddings, and community gatherings.

She also leads sessions for children's museums and festivals featuring fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance.