"ilyAIMY ain't your grandpa's folk music… fearless writers & performers… Voices this rich & emotionally hard-hitting - equal parts velvet darkness, barely contained heartbreak, & hard-won, unstoppable joy - don't come around often.” – Pat Wictor
Sat 2/7 - ilyAIMY robDay Celebration (Gaithersburg)
FocusMusic presents ilyAIMY at Island Pride Oasis. 617 S Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 | 7.30pm
ilyAIMY will be joining FocusMusic for rob Hinkal's birthday.
“rob Hinkal is arguably the most important figure to local music in the Baltimore / DMV area. His legendary innovative band ilyAIMY continues to explore the finer points of rough house folk music that pulses with energy, wit and an iconoclastic irreverence. rob is also the resource and inspiration for so many local songwriters and musicians.”
- Jay Keating, President of Songwriters Association of Washington (saw.org)
For over two decades, rob Hinkal and Heather Aubrey Lloyd have crisscrossed the nation as ilyAIMY (i love you And I Miss You) playing everything from bait shops to biker weeks to clothing-optional resorts, folk festivals, heavy metal festivals, coffeehouses and colleges across all 48 states of the contiguous United States, plus Canada and Mexico. They perform award-winning original songs with soulful, powerful male / female harmonies and a percussive, clawhammer-like acoustic guitar that drives the heart of the band. Their infectious energy and rapid-fire lyricism is softened with cello, amplified by Irish bones and bodhran, beatboxing, djembe, and thickened by didgeridoo, synths and keys creating “an acoustically roiling, combustible attack on the usual singer/songwriter fare”.
Their energetic brand of new-folk has garnered honors from the Bernard/Ebb Songwriter Awards, Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, Kerrville Folk Festival, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Washington Area Music Awards, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, National Association for Campus Activities, the Northeast & Southeast Regional Folk Alliances, FOLK Ontario and more. They are three-time winners of the Washington Area Music Association Winners for Best Contemporary Folk Group and are known for combining their award-winning songwriting, tight male/female harmonies, signature intricate slap-style guitar work, ukulele, percussion and an eclectically humorous stage show into an exquisite package.
More about ilyAIMY at www.ilyaimy.com
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