Grannagerie™ = FARM + FOOD + FIDDLE Susan Hope's four CDs include many new compositions and feature live performances in concerts and at dances. Her first live album was described by fiddler Greg Boardman as "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." Grannagerie™ gives you an inventive array of tactile, playful, beautiful art and music items. For your home, for gifts, for romance, for your kids, this is a creative way to bring more music and imagery into your daily life. Images feature nature and farming; newly composed folk melodies are in the style of Irish and French Canadian dance tunes. Gifts are available for purchase from www.grannagerie.com. Composer and fiddler Susan Hope Hoffman presents lively, inventive performances of original tunes and the traditional music that inspired them. She works as a soloist and recording artist, and with a variety of duos and ensembles including weddings and events. Her musical style is noted for its evocative beauty and rough-and-tumble playfulness, with influences including Renaissance and early music, and New England dance fiddlers. Her rhythmic and lyrical repertoire features Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, Welsh and Scandinavian tunes. She is an experienced music and dance teacher for ages 3-adult, and in addition to fiddle instruction, leads sessions for children's museums and festivals featuring fiddle music, creative movement and folk dance.