{"id":245109,"date":"2012-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/indigo-girls-come-to-san-diego\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T07:00:00","slug":"indigo-girls-come-to-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/indigo-girls-come-to-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Girls come to San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia-based band moving forward by getting back to their roots<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(l to r) Emily Saliers and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls (Photo by Jeremy Cowart)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Por Antonio Rey | Editor SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgia-based and world-renown duo the Indigo Girls take the stage as part of the Humphreys By the Bay concert series on Friday, June 15, and Amy Ray, one half of the group, said this time they are getting back to their roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always taken friends out with us, and we\u2019ve always had opening bands that \u2026 we were big fans of but also wanted to play with,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of been a part of our world because it\u2019s sort of how we came up through the scenes in Atlanta. \u2026 We sort of just see it as an extension of what we\u2019ve always done and what\u2019s been done for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray,\u00a0 with bandmate and friend Emily Saliers, is welcoming the Georgia-based band The Shadowboxers on the tour, to both open the show and support the duo for the remainder of the show, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a fantastic band,\u201d Ray said. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to give us a lot more to work with than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Humphreys concert sits at the beginning of a two-month tour in support of Ray and Saliers\u2019s latest album, last fall\u2019s \u201cBeauty Queen Sister,\u201d however Ray said they always pull music from their entire career \u2013 which spans over 25 years \u2013 for the shows.<\/p>\n

Recorded in Nashville, Tenn., \u201cBeauty Queen Sister\u201d brought the Indigo Girls back together with producer Peter Collins, who worked with them on 1992\u2019s \u201cRites of Passage\u201d and its follow-up, 1994\u2019s \u201cSwamp Ophelia.\u201d While \u201cBeauty Queen Sister\u201d is similar in tone, Ray said the group continues to look forward in their music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work with [Collins] every now and then, when we need somebody to kind of shake us up a bit,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s really good at seeing where you\u2019ve been, seeing where you are and \u2026 trying to give you something to look at differently. [He] brings in different players that he thinks might draw something out of you, that\u2019s different than what you\u2019ve done before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Indigo Girls\u2019s recording career has produced 14 studio albums, as well as several live recordings and greatest hits compilations. The band has sold over 12 million albums worldwide, with \u201cBeauty Queen Sister,\u201d the fourth to be released on their independent label, IG Recordings.<\/p>\n

Ray said that in the start of their career \u2013 the two met in elementary school and started performing regularly while attending Emory University in Atlanta \u2013 they relied on other bands to give them a chance to play in front of an audience, and now like to do the same for up and coming bands, such as the Shadowboxers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t done this in a long time,\u201d Ray said. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably do a lot of the set with full band, and then some of it we\u2019ll break off and do alone. I guess it will depend on the crowd and the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The June 15 show at Humphreys by the Bay begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $45 for reserved seats and $112 for dinner and show packages. The venue is located at 2241 Shelter Island Dr. For more information and tickets, visit humphreysconcerts.com or call 619-224-3577.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia-based band moving forward by getting back to their roots By Anthony King | SDUN Editor Georgia-based and world-renown duo the Indigo Girls take the stage as part of the Humphreys By the Bay concert series on Friday, June 15, and Amy Ray, one half of the group, said this time they are getting back […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Indigo Girls come to San Diego","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}