Folk Traditions and Sounds Highlight the Performance of ilyAIMY

Folk Traditions and Sounds Highlight the Performance of ilyAIMY

Kristen Jones, Rob Hinkal and Heather Aubrey Lloyd of ilyAIMY.

For more than 15 years as ilyAIMY (i love you And I Miss You), Rob Hinkal and Heather Aubrey Lloyd have played everything from bait shops to biker weeks to clothing-optional resorts all over the country. Their energetic brand of new folk engages audiences with humor and award-winning narrative songs that highlight an unforgettably soulful and powerful female vocalist/percussionist, and signature clawhammer-banjo/bass guitar work that challenges the boundaries of "acoustic.” The hard edges are softened with Kristen Jones’ cello and lush, trio harmonies. 

ilyAIMY is "a welcome jolt" and "an acoustically roiling, combustible attack on the usual singer/songwriter fare," say reviewers. The band’s commitment to preserving folk traditions while pressing forward has earned honors from the 2017 Troubadour competition of Colorado's prestigious Telluride Bluegrass Festival, New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas, most-wanted artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in New York and a formal showcase at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. Recently, ilyAIMY has created an educational program on gender inequality in murder ballads, most recently performed by the band at the North Carolina Museum of History.

ilyAIMY will perform on the Coffeyville Community College campus on Tuesday, March 13, as part of the CCC Humanities Project. The public is invited to the 10:30 a.m. Tuesday humanities performances at CCC.  The performances are free and held in the Spencer/Rounds Performing Arts Theatre.

For more information about the humanities project at CCC, please call 620-251-7700, ext. 2166.