What is a gal supposed to do when her car breaks down, her grandmother dies, her dog gets cancer, and her husband runs off with a blonde to Texas?. . . write a country song, of course.Hope MacGregor’s first love was music. She began writing her own material at fifteen and playing with a small band of friends in her corn-fed, midwestern hometown. She tried to convince her parents to let her drop out of high school to head to Nashville (with a boy from the band . . . ), but they said: no.And then, in 2007, the Army came calling. Hope answered. She reported to the United States Military Academy to join the class of 2011. She branched aviation and reported to flight school upon graduation. Then, in October 2012, Hope pinned on her wings as an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot.Hope reported to Ft. Campbell, where she served with the 101st Airborne Division. She deployed as a Scout Helicopter platoon leader to Bagram, Afghanistan. Then, after eight years of active duty service and multiple duty stations, Hope decided it was time to move on.Not entirely sure what to do next, she found herself enrolled in law school. Two weeks into her second year, and just a handful of months into the pandemic, her ex-husband moved out.Hope’s dad was busy helping her pack up and move on when they ran across her old guitar from her days at West Point. It had been cracked and glued back together, dragged along on several field training exercises . . . and packed away for far, far too long. Her dad asked how long it had been since she played; Hope realized it had been years since she hummed a tune, much less strummed a six string. As any good dad would, Hope’s father told her it was probably time to try. What started out as a way to survive a bleak season became a rekindled old flame. The more Hope played and wrote and sang, the more she healed. And the more she healed the more she sang and wrote and played. Upon graduating law school, Hope moved to Jackson, Tennessee. There, she found a vibrant local music scene with talented musicians and a town full of music lovers. With a band in tow, Hope and the team hit the studio to record Hope’s first full-length album: the Matriarch. Since then, she has toured nationally, been featured on music festival line ups with Grammy-award winning artists, and was recently named a Rising Star in Tennessee music by the Tennessee Entertainment Commission, and released her second studio album – Sloppy Seconds! She is set to release new music later in 2026, a project you won’t want to miss!Hope's music is a unique blend of Americana, blues, country, and honesty. She knows how to speak to the most tender parts of life with songs like Why Dogs and For Now. But it is MacGregor’s own brand of take-no-crap humor in her writing that keeps folks coming back for more. If you want to get to know Hope, just ask her about her beloved yellow lab, Lucy.
