“Your rapport with the children was wonderful”
Kim and Jimbo have reached more than 200,000 children and families at schools, libraries, festivals and fairs throughout the state.
The Carys perform on fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, jawharp, bones, and bring over 200 world percussion instruments for the audience to play along.
“The smiles on their faces and the rhythms in their hands convinced me that the two of you are pros at engaging young people in music.”
-music specialist, Oak Grove E.S
Each performance is:
“Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! My children enjoyed every minute and I did too!”
– M. D. , Concord Elementary
• Famous Races and Riddles – “everyone wins with music” — ties in with the 2016 SRP theme.
• Animal Friends and Folksongs – folksongs and original songs about animals played on banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar. Animal puppets for children to participate.
• Rhythms ‘Round the World — an interactive, multicultural music performance with music from the British Isles, Europe, Africa, Asia, and more.
*see descriptions below
Bravo! Tailored to young children and kept their attention.”
– teacher, OB Gates
ABOUT KIM & JIMBO: 
“Excellent communication with the children. Very child centered. Very informative – a great learning experience.”
– teacher, OB Gates
PERFORMANCE OPTIONS:
Famous Races and Riddles
• Join a jam session and play gourds, bells, tambourines and drums. Kim & Jimbo bring over 200 world percussion instruments for children to play along during the performance.
Rhythms ‘Round the World
A musical adventure with Kim & Jimbo Cary
Do you like to play drums, bells, gourds, tambourines, and maracas?
Join the fun as the audience is invited to play along with an Irish jig, a Mexican waltz, an East European frailach and West African dance rhythms.
Kim & Jimbo perform on fiddle, mandolin, saxophone, West African drums and balafon (a West African xylophone).
The Carys bring their collection of over 200 world percussion instruments (bells, maracas, gourds, tambourines, and drums) for families to create their own music.
Take a musical tour of the world with Kim & Jimbo Cary
Animal Friends and Folksongs
A funtastic musical adventure with Kim & Jimbo Cary
In a program of music, dancing and audience participation, Kim & Jimbo will sing and tell stories of our animal friends and pets. The Carys perform traditional and original songs on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, jawharp, bones, african drums, world percussion, and more.
“tailored to young children and kept their attention”
Be prepared to listen to animal riddles, play an instrument, and dance with an animal.
• Sing along and clap to Adopt a Kitten if You Can and Frolic of the Frogs
• Dance with an animal puppet to the Animal Friends Waltz .
“Cows give us their milk. Hens give us their eggs.
Sheep give us the wool off their back.
Be nice to your animal friends”
• Join in a jam session and play gourds, bells, bamboo, tambourines and drums. (over 200 world percussion instruments).
Jimbo’s newest song, Adopt a Kitten if You Can is a tribute to the Animal Rescue League… children will use animal puppets (kittens, cats, and little dogs) during the song.
Deer Walk is a traditional fiddle tune with new words describing the big eyes, long legs, and big ears of the white tail deer.
Jimbo has created several animal riddles for children. During the performance, he tells a riddle while the audience tries to name the animal. The animal (puppet) appears from behind a screen at the end of the riddle:
“I fish all day; I need not beg.
I often hunt upon one leg.
The little fish have much to fear.
I use my bill just like a spear!”
(Heron)
Frolic of the Frogs is another traditional tune (played on fiddle and guitar) — with new words by Jimbo:
“Lets frolic with the frogs.
We’ll sashay down to the swamp.
We’ll dance and we’ll play with the pollywogs —
never mind the mud and the damp.
It makes my heart sing when they peep in the spring
and they ribbit in the summertime too.
So don’t mind the ‘skeeters, watch out for the snakes…
and we’ll do the bog boogaloo.”
The Carys bring their “traveling music museum” – a collection of over 200 world percussion instruments for children and their families to play along.
“An excellent program performed by seasoned musicians.
You have the audience in the palm of your hand”
“Squirrel has a bushy tail.
Stumpy is the hare.
The raccoon’s tail has rings all around
and the possum’s tail is bare.“
Kim & Jimbo’s songs are gentle reminders to keep wild animals in their natural habitat. The Carys bring over 200 world percussion instruments so that children can play along on gourds, maracas, bells, drums and more. Everyone can dance to the Camel Walk. Waltz with a friend, a relative or an animal puppet.
“It never ceases to amaze me how music can pull people of all ages together and make them sing and dance along!” –LF, Pamunkey Regional Library
Rhythms ‘Round Virginia
“Judging from the smiles on the faces of our patrons, I am certain that old and young alike thoroughly enjoyed your presentation for our Summer Reading Program” —-LF, Pamunkey Regional Library