AIMEE HOYT

Aimee Hoyt, Raising Cane’s female vocalist, songwriter and guitarist, hails from the red clay hills of Georgia and North Carolina. Now living in Placitas, she was lured to New Mexico in 1998 by what she calls the “magic” of the Southwest. After moving to New Mexico in 1998, she performed with the Albuquerque Concert Band for two years and even started a small student band at her school.

Aimee started playing drums at age nine. She was originally a state champion percussionist before she discovered the guitar a few years ago. After a successful stint on drums with North Carolina's indie rock band, Soccer, she joined Raising Cane in May, 2004 as a songwriter, vocalist and rhythm guitarist.

When she’s not on stage with Raising Cane, teaching sixth grade English or mountaineering in the Alaskan wilderness, you’ll find Aimee writing songs in her backyard at the base of New Mexico's Sandia Mountains. Her songs are tuneful poems that have earned Aimee a place among America's fresh new songwriters and one of the Southwest's best, as evidenced by her recent selection as finalist in the 2005 Tucson Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. In her "In a Cabin by the Woods," Aimee extends an earnest wish to listeners: "May the road rise up to meet you [and] may the breezes of the past blow calm beneath you as you drift on off to sleep." Aimee’s musical influences include the Beatles, the Byrds, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earl, Ryan Adams and Ben Folds. >> back