PrideFest is delighted to present
the Indigo Girls on the Miller Lite Main Stage! As
one of the most popular folk rock acts of the past
20 years and icons of the LGBT rights movement, the
Indigo Girls will bring a rousing close to PrideFest's
celebration of LGBT culture and community.
With hits like "Closer To Fine,"
"Hammer and a Nail," "Galileo" and "Shame On
You," the Indigo Girls are known for legendary live
shows that inevitably turn into massive group sing-alongs.
They also carry the respect of the peers in the music
industry, having won the Grammy for Best Contemporary
Folk Recording and receiving a nomination for Best
New Artist.
20 years after they began releasing
records as Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers
have politely declined the opportunity to mellow with
age. You could say it's just not in their constitution:
devoted environmental and social justice activists,
the Girls have spent their entire career pushing boundaries
on a variety of fronts. Why stop now?
Both Saliers and Ray agree that
Despite Our Differences, the 10th Indigo Girls studio
album, is a record defined by change and newness.
On the business side of things, it's the first CD
they've released since signing a new record deal with
Hollywood Records earlier this year. And on the creative
side, it's one they made far outside the confines
of their established Georgia comfort zone; Differences
was recorded over a speedy month-and-a-half this spring
at veteran producer Mitchell Froom's home studio in
Santa Monica, California.
The result is perhaps the freshest-sounding
album in the Indigos' ample discography. Differences
pulses with warm acoustic guitars; crisp, tasty keyboards
(played by Froom and longtime band member Carol Isaacs);
and, of course, the singers' trademark intertwined
vocals. Guest appearances from two Indigo Girls fans,
Brandi Carlile and Pink (returning the favor the Girls
did her when they performed and sang on "Dear Mr.
President" from Pink's album I'm Not Dead), "inject
the record with this inspiring energy," Saliers says.
There's an understated immediacy to the music that
evokes the deep-rooted chemistry of the artists' live
show, which Saliers admits was part of what she and
Ray were after. "Amy and I had learned the songs,"
she explains, "and we just wanted to go in there and
cut them with the rhythm section. Mitchell's not an
overproducer - he wants the song to come alive." |
