Kim and Jimbo are available for family concerts, dances, choir camps, and other performances for church groups. Their repertoire includes old-time gospel songs, original songs based in tradition, and songs about being kind to animals (for the children). They bring over 200 percussion instruments for children and their families to play along.
“An excellent performance by seasoned musicians.You have the audience in the palm of your hand.”
The Carys are touring artists with the Virginia Commission for the Arts tour program and grants are available for non-profit organizations — to help with the performance fee.
“You both are so talented and do a great job keepin’ the ol’ tunes alive as well as generating new ones.” —P.A., Montebello, VA
Kim and Jimbo play Americana, old-time southern mountain music, gospel, and songs for families and children.
Performing together professionally for over 20 years, the Carys have performed for more than 200,000 adults and children at festivals, museums, cultural centers, schools and libraries throughout the state.
Kim & Jimbo play fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, jawharp, bones, African drums, and more. For their world music performances, Rhythms Round the World, they also perform on balafons (xylophones from West Africa), gourd banjo, soprano and alto saxophones and they bring their traveling music museum of over 200 world percussion instruments for the audience to play along.
In addition to years of coordinating the music for the Nelson County Summer Festival and coordinating music for the Mountain Music Festival at Wintergreen Resort, the Carys have taught at music camps including Camp Holiday Lake and Kaleidoscope vocal camp.