Iconic 80s/90s Folk/Rock Duo To Perform In Simsbury This Weekend

SIMSBURY, CT — Grammy-winning folk-rock duo Indigo Girls will perform at the Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Aug. 22, as part of a career that has spanned four decades.

The concert, featuring Trina Meade & Co., is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Simsbury Meadows.

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The venue said tickets remain available but are selling quickly.

Indigo Girls, composed of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, have released 16 studio albums and sold more than 15 million records, according to the duo's official biography on their website.

Ray and Saliers began performing in clubs and bars around their native Atlanta before signing with Epic Records in 1988.

Their self-titled major-label debut sold more than 2 million copies and included "Closer to Fine" and "Kid Fears."

The debut became the first of six consecutive Indigo Girls albums to receive Gold or Platinum certification.

Their 2020 album, "Look Long," explored Ray and Saliers' personal histories and the ways their pasts shaped their perspectives.

"We're fallible creatures shaped by the physics of life," Saliers said in the group's biography. "We're shaped by our past; what makes us who we are? And why?"

Beyond their music, Ray and Saliers have been involved in activism involving racial justice, reproductive rights, immigration reform, LGBTQ advocacy, education, death penalty reform, and Native American rights.

The duo's music has also reached a new generation in recent years. "Closer to Fine" was prominently featured in the 2023 movie "Barbie."

A documentary examining the duo's career, "Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and was released in 2024.

Saliers said the group's audience has become increasingly diverse over the years, even as the musicians retain the approach they developed early in their career.

"We joke about being old, but what is old when it comes to music? We're still a bar band at heart," Saliers said in the biography. "While our lyrics and writing approach may change, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25 years old."

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