Bowdoinham String Band

Traditional music for
weddings and community events.

Styles range from lyrical waltzes to toe-tapping tunes, and include Irish and Scottish, French Canadian,

American roots from the South and West, English and Welsh, and Scandinavian.

Strolling musicians, background and dinner music, and dances.

Solo violin/fiddle
Duet with guitar and fiddle
Trio of mandolin, guitar, fiddle
Four/five-piece band with two fiddles, guitar, mandolin, banjo
and other combinations ad infinitum

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Hope Hoffman & Jim Tolles

Vocal and fiddle duo featuring songs from the Carter Family, bluegrass, country duet, and Appalachian folk heritage.

Available for concerts, festivals, dances, parties and events.

Focusing on the traditions of vocal and fiddle music, and incorporating their original, roots-based songs and instrumental compositions.

Hope Hoffman contributes her zippy, precise fiddle stylings and high, pure vocals.

Jim Tolles, former Capitol and Rounder recording artist, adds guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals.

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Hope Hoffman & Kittlish

Presenting Hope Hoffman's original New England dance tunes
& the stories and traditional music which inspire them.

We're called upon mainly for concerts, festivals, and parties.

Hope Hoffman, fiddle, viola, voice

Hugh McGinness, cittern, crosstuned guitar and, if we're lucky, jaw harp

Larry Burkett, guitar

www.kittlish.com

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CD ~ Photo scrapbook

Hope Hoffman & Jim Berrier

With vigor, nuance and good humor, high-energy tunes for contra dances and barn dances.

Jim Berrier got his rhythm chops on guitar and harmonica accompanying longtime dance harmonica player Fred Legere at the Norlands Living History Center's barn dances. Fred's repertoire is based on Don Messer's.

Later on, Hope played the Norlands dances
as a solo fiddle.

Then, one evening, Jim and Hope showed up to play for the same dance. Jim had forgotten his guitar so he played the spoons. The next time, he brought his guitar.

So, a new duo was born!

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