Indigo Girls
USA

16 Mar 09, Mon, 7.30pm
$58*, $88**, $118

"The Indigo Girls personify what happens when two distinct sensibilities, voices, and worldviews come together to create something transcendently its own." - Rolling Stone

In the 1980s, two girls from Atlanta got together and wowed industry professionals and audiences alike with their gutsy brand of acoustic guitar-based folk-rock, singing in strong vocal harmony about heartbreak, environmental pollution, prejudice and social injustice.

Calling themselves the Indigo Girls, the two - 20 years, 15 albums and numerous chart-toppers later - have politely declined the opportunity to mellow with age. Devoted environmental and social-justice activists and lifelong music-industry mavericks, the Girls - the harder-rocking Amy Ray and love song balladeer Emily Saliers - have spent their entire career pushing boundaries on a variety of fronts and are not about to stop now.

Despite Our Differences, the 10th Indigo Girls studio album, retains the leftist leanings of the Girls, addressing socio-political issues with empathy and conviction. At the same time, it has a back-to-basics immediacy, evoking the feel of the artists' live show, pulsing with warm acoustic guitars, crisp, tasty keyboards (played by Froom and longtime band member Carol Isaacs), and the singers' trademark intertwined vocals, with new energy injected by guest artists and Indigo Girls fans, Brandi Carlile and Pink.

Hear the Girls' heartfelt stories up-close in their first visit to Singapore!

Opening for the Girls is homegrown duo 53A featuring the dulcet tones and acoustic-folk-jazz tunes of singer-songwriter Sara Wei and guitarist Alvin Khoo.

110mins, no intermission
Opening Act by 53A (Singapore)

Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $40* and $60**