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Nick Hoffman is an American singer, songwriter, fiddle player, and television personality, currently residing in Nashville, TN. He is also the host of the Outdoor Sportsman Award nominated television series “Nick’s Wild Ride”, which airs on Outdoor Channel. He is also co-founder of the Elektra Records/Warner Music Nashville Recording Artists The Farm. 

Hoffman is an award-winning fiddle player and has collaborated and performed alongside many notable musical acts including Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Sara Evans, Brooks & Dunn, and more.  He won the Country Music Association’s CMA-SRO award for Touring Musician of the Year in 2012..[1]

In 2010, Hoffman co-founded, along with Krista Marie and Damien Horne, the trio The Farm, which was signed to Warner Music Nashville. The group has gone on to score #2 Billboard Country Top 40 songs “Home Sweet Home” and “Be Grateful”.  

Early life

Nick Hoffman grew up in Nowthen, MN to a musical family. He has been playing the fiddle for as long as he can remember, beginning at the age of four[2].  His love of music came from his grandparents Harold and Sybil Hoffman who oftentimes held Saturday night jam sessions at their home in Anoka, MN[3]. Hoffman grew up on a farm in which he was immersed in the outdoors – the woods, cornfields, and the lake. 

Even though he grew up in a small town, Hoffman dreamed of bigger things. At the young age of twelve, he got the idea that he wanted to move to Nashville to pursue his music dreams[4]. Hoffman left home in 1997 at the age of 17 with no real plan to make that dream come true. However, he found his way to Branson, MO where he played in local shows before moving to Nashville in January of 2000[5]

Nearly twenty years after departing from the small town just outside the Twin Cities, Hoffman has made a successful career as a musician and artist. He is now married to fellow musician Natalie Murphy with a 7-year-old daughter[6]. Along with touring around the country with the Nashville-based group, The Farm, he travels around the world hunting and exploring for his television series. Recently, he has traveled to the Middle East to entertain American troops.   

Music career

Hoffman has collaborated and performed alongside many notable musical acts including Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Sara Evans, Brooks & Dunn, and more[7].  

Before moving to Nashville, Hoffman joined a musical act owned by Dolly Parton in Branson, MO. He played for a time there before returning to his hometown to finish his high school degree. After returning home, he joined the cover band High Noon, which played at the Winstock Country Music Festival in 1999.

In 2000, Nick moved to Nashville, TN where he joined Kenny Chesney’s band.  This lasted for more than from Feb 2000 until 2012. He had the opportunity to perform with such stars as Tim McGraw, George Jones, and even Dave Matthews and Kid Rock.[5]. He won the Country Music Association’s CMA-SRO award for Touring Musician of the Year in 2012[1]

In 2010, Hoffman co-founded, along with Krista Marie and Damien Horne, the trio The Farm, which was signed to Warner Music Nashville.   He co-produced their self-titled debut album alongside hit songwriter and producer Danny Myrick. Nick had always had the dream of hearing his song on the radio or seeing his CD in stores. In July of 2012, both of those dreams came true with The Farm’s first album[4]. The group went on to score #2 Billboard Country Top 40 songs “Home Sweet Home” and “Be Grateful”.

As a songwriter, Hoffman signed a publishing deal with Nashville-based company Root 49 Music in 2012. He also co-wrote the Billboard Country top 20 hit “Home Sweet Home” by The Farm.  More recently, he co-wrote the debut single from former Miss America Betty Cantrell “Soldier On”, a song about being a female soldier.

Nick’s musical career has been greatly influenced by his childhood growing up on a farm just north of Nowthen, MN. 

Hoffman is expected to release his first solo album by the end of 2017.

Television

Hoffman is the host of the Outdoor Channel’s television series “Nick’s Wild Ride”. The show follows Hoffman as he travels around the world hunting unusual species and exploring the culture of the area that he visits. The show is more than just about hunting, as it includes exploration of the country he travels to, along with scenes of him fiddling[7]. It also harkens back to his childhood, growing up the great outdoors in central Minnesota.

Hoffman has traveled to such places as Africa, Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, among many other countries. Even though Nick enjoys traveling all over the world, he still makes it a point to hunt in the United States. He has been up the Mississippi River to hunt and fish, and has traveled all over the states to explore and hunt in fields, prairies, rivers, deserts, and mountains. He’s been to the mountains of Colorado, the hills of Kentucky, the deserts of Arizona, and the prairies of Wyoming and South Dakota, among many other states[4]. The show follows Nick as he hunts anything and everything, from waterfowl in Nebraska to peccary in Mexico[8].

Even though the show took him to the far corners of the earth, Nick Hoffman was able to return home to Minnesota as part of the show to hunt pheasants[3]. Getting back in touch with his Minnesota roots was important to Nick, who often found it hard to balance raising his daughter with his career dreams – something he talks about often.  

Hoffman’s TV Show is currently[when?] filming it’s 3rd Season.

Awards

Nick Hoffman received the Country Music Association’s CMA-SRO award for Touring Musician of the Year in 2012. In 2017 the First Season of his show, “Nick’s Wild Ride”, was also nominated for the Outdoor Sportsman Award “Best New Show”.  It won 3 Telly Awards.   The Farm was nominated for the American Country Awards New Artist Single of the Year for “Home Sweet Home”.[9] 

References

  1. ^ a b "CMA Announces Winners of 2012 SRO Awards Honoring the Touring Industry". www.urbancountrynews.com. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  2. ^ "Exclusive Interview: Nick Hoffman on What Sets His New Show, Nick's Wild Ride, Apart". Wide Open Spaces. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  3. ^ a b "'Nick's Wild Ride' comes through Nowthen". ABC Newspapers. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  4. ^ a b c "Star News | Local fiddler's dreams come true with CD". erstarnews.com. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  5. ^ a b "A Minnesota kid who was a fiddling fool runs with his passion for music, hunting". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  6. ^ "The Farm's Nick Hoffman Marries Natalie Murphy". Taste of Country. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  7. ^ a b "Outdoor Channel's - Nick's Wild Ride - Adventure Outdoors Magazine ®". Adventure Outdoors Magazine ®. 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  8. ^ "Nick Hoffman to Star In New TV Series, 'Nick's Wild Ride'". Sounds Like Nashville. 2016-06-27. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  9. ^ "The Farm Nominated For 2012 ACA Awards New Artist Single of the Year For "Home Sweet Home" - Music News Nashville". Music News Nashville. 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
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