All About It...
Plan 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
Infinite Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music
Download information about CD as pdf file
Free Grange Productions
& Free Grange™ publications
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FIDDLES*FARMS*FOOD*FUN
Supporting local foods, community and businesses through music & promotional partnerships.
Join in the Fun!
Come to an Event including concerts, dances, suppers and classes. Enjoy live music, good food and good company
Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance with Live Music, including activities with themes of farm food, a 45-minute workshop great for libraries and birthday parties!
Buy Free Grange™ Music and Artwork from stores, organizations and farms which support local food and community
Learn to play a musical instrument at our teaching studios in Bowdoinham, Portland & Rockland, Maine
Food Links fresh, delicious, convenient and full of good cheer
Easy Recipes using local ingredients and very basic cooking
Sign Up Here for our quarterly e-mail newsletter
Download a Flyer to share and advertise events in your area
Read our Online Newsletter
for a quick summary of local music CDs and events
Past Events such as concerts and community events by Hope Hoffman
Resources for Music Students including violin rentals, repairs, and group sessions
Sign up here for our quarterly e-mail newsletter
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, logistical and political connections for local farmers and eaters
* Provide local entertainment at rural venues such as grange halls, town halls and community centers
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Share the beauty, vitality and playfulness of traditional and newly composed
fiddle music in the form of live performances and digital recordings,
and visual artwork relating to food and community
Get in Touch to share ideas and ask questions
Contact: Hope Hoffman
PO Box 171, Bowdoinham, Maine 04008
(207) 332-3459
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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. The lyrics are available here. (© Hope Hoffman 2007)
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Listen to Hope Hoffman's recently composed dance tune "Superinsulated House" (© Hope Hoffman 2007)
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Listen to audio of dance bands, one with guitarist Jim Berrier and the other with guitarist Jim Tolles
Free Grange™ products and events are currently partnered with:
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine
Fresh off the Farm in Rockport, Maine
Good Tern Co-Op in Rockland, Maine
Morning Dew Natural Foods in Bridgton, Maine
Mother Oven Bakery in Bowdoinham, Maine
O'Naturals restaurant in Falmouth, Maine
Organization For Transformative Farming based in Portland, Maine
Pleasant Pond Orchard in Richmond, Maine
Rising Tide Community Market in Damariscotta, Maine
Willow Pond Farm in Sabattus, Maine
and we're planning events
and retailing with
farmer's markets, downtown associations, farms, stores, restaurants, families
and other groups throughout New England.
Website design and content © Hope Hoffman 2008
www.freegrange.org
Supporting local foods through music
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
Bath Farmer's Market in Bath, Maine
Lewiston Farmer's Market in Lewiston, Maine
Maine State Grange's Saco Grange #53 in Saco, Maine
Gardiner Farmer's Market in Gardiner, Maine
Saco River Grange Hall in Bar Mills, Maine
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