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INDIGO GIRLS TO PERFORM FEBRUARY 15 AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
FEBRUARY 6, 2003--Epic Recording artists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls, will present "A Concert for Peace" Saturday, February 15 at 8 p.m. in Oberlin College’s Finney Chapel. The concert is part of a 15-city tour supporting their eighth studio album, Become You.
Opening for the duo will be Puerto Rican-born Atlanta native Ani Cordero, who is taking her Brooklyn-based Latin-influenced indie rock band Cordero on tour with the folk-rocking Indigos. Cordero released their debut album Lamb Lost in the City on the independent label Daemon Records last fall to critical acclaim.
Tickets are $22 and are available at the College’s Central Ticket Service 440-775-8169. Finney Chapel is located on the corner of West Lorain (Rt. 511) and North Professor Streets, opposite Tappan Square.
"Because another world is possible, because peace is a human right, because music is a powerful voice with which to unite, because songs can change the world, join us for a concert for peace," says Rebecca Bodonyi ‘03, a member of the Oberlin Coalition Against War, who will distribute peacemaking information in the Finney lobby the evening of the performance.
With Ray on vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bouzouki,and harmonica, and Saliers on vocals, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, Become You---recorded in their home town of Atlanta, Georgia--gives the duo the chance to summon their expansive artistic vocabulary and use it to more fully explore the core elements that have given their music such enduring appeal. Rich acoustic instruments, pitch-perfect harmonies, and incomparable lyrics add to the girls' musical virtuosity, reflecting their ever-deepening understanding of themselves and the world, but always leaving room for listeners to join them on the journey.
Possibly the best work of their remarkable two-decade career, Become You’s 12 elegantly constructed folk-pop songs show off the Indigos’ contrasting but complimentary song-writing styles. The album was produced by Peter Collins, producer of the Indigo Girls’ 1992 platinum album Rites of Passage and the 1994 Grammy-nominated Swamp Ophelia, and mixed by Bob Clearmountain, who has worked with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Shelby Lynn, and Rufus Wainwright.
The Girls also turned to their versatile touring group: Carol Isaacs (Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer, piano, accordion, penny whistle, recorder, percussion), Clare Kenny (acoustic and electric bass), and Brady Blade (drums and percussion), to round out the album’s sound.
Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli
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