CD of Live, Original Maine Fiddle "Infinite Winter Squash"
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Featured Events: Free Grange Music Studio in Bowdoinham has openings for new students, for music lessons in: Fiddle/Violin, Piano,
Guitar, Mandolin, Concertina, Banjo [link
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NEW CD of Traditional & Original Scots-Irish tunes and vocals including Longview jig
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 fundraising and promotion
Press Kit with audio, news release and newspaper photos
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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FIDDLES*FARMS*FOOD*FUN
Supporting local foods, community and businesses through music & promotional partnerships.
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.
Join in the Fun!
Parent-Child Creative Folk Dance with Live Music, including activities with themes of farm food; great for libraries and birthday parties!
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Food Links fresh, delicious, convenient and full of good cheer
Easy Recipes using local ingredients and very basic cooking
Tune-of-the-Month e-mails you sheet music, chords and audio links for newly composed fiddle music
Read our Online Newsletter for a quick summary of local music CDs and events
Come to an Event including concerts, dances, suppers and classes. Enjoy live music, good food and good company
Download a Flyer to share and advertise events in your area
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
Resources
for Music Students
including violin rentals, repairs, and group sessions
Listen to fiddle music
Look at scrapbook photos
Get in Touch to share ideas and ask questions
Traditional and newly composed fiddle and viola music, from the Live CD of Original Maine Dance Tunes "Infinite Winter Squash" (recordings © Hope Hoffman 2007)
"Bean by Bean" waltz on live CD of New Maine Fiddle Music "Infinite Winter Squash"
New Maine dance tune "Superinsulated House" (© Hope Hoffman 2007), recorded live at its debut at Johnny D's
"Jenny Jenkins Eats Her Vegetables," a song Hope wrote, 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)
Barn dance/contra dance bands
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.
Hope Hoffman
PO Box 171, Bowdoinham, Maine 04008
(207) 332-3459
Booking Form for Event Planners
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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
* 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
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
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Past Events such as concerts and community events by Hope Hoffman
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photos/design/content/trademark copyrighted/all rights reserved
by photographers and Hope Hoffman
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