Publicity Photos

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Audio Samples

Listen to fiddle tunes:

(please include credit: Ron St. Jean photo)

Hope Hoffman
(director, fiddler, composer)

Hope is known for her warm and personable music performances from Presque Isle to Manhattan. Her style is noted for its evocative beauty and rough-and-tumble playfulness.

With a lifetime of experience as a writer, actress and dancer, Hope has been a self-employed musician and teacher in Maine since 2001.

From Hope's CD

Infinite Winter Squash: New Maine Fiddle Music:


Sweet Pea (square dance)

(tune and recording © Hope Hoffman 2007)


Neofa Farewell (waltz)

(tune and recording © Hope Hoffman 2007)

 

(please include credit: Ron Gallup photo)

Jim Berrier
(guitar, harmonica)

Jim got his rhythm chops accompanying longtime dance harmonica player Fred Légère at the Norlands Living History Center's barn dances in Livermore, Maine.

Live recordings with Jim Berrier on guitar and harmonica:

Growling Grumbling (French Canadian reel)

Year of Jublio (march)

Pay de Haut (French Canadian reel)


(recordings © Hope Hoffman 2007)