![]() “We are also working to support the women who are in the frontlines of supporting Mother Earth because right now there’s just an all-out assault against women- in reproductive health, in mother earth, water, in every way. “With Water is Life, we’re focused on the preservation of water and recognizing that water is, in fact, life,” says Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers. They’ll be joined by a host of national music and movie stars, plus Minnesota artists, including Native and non-Native musicians, activists, models, and more. Legendary folk rock duo Indigo Girls are converging in Duluth on Sunday as part of the Water is Life Festival. When asked about starting the process of taking a song idea and creating a full track, Ray says it’s “nerve wracking.” The duo each send an MP3 file with a song idea to one another and then they get together.Sign up to get Artscape in your inbox every Friday afternoon. I just wanted to know how it gets to that point,” says El-Amin. “I was just really impressed with how put together it was up there. In writing for a musical, I wrote lyrics based on what’s happening in the scene and then wrote music for the lyrics.Īs a Music in Performance – Popular Music and Technology major, El-Amin was pleasantly surprised by the soundcheck, admitting he was not aware of the Indigo Girl’s work before the event. “But now I use voice memos on my iPhone because I’ll forget everything. ![]() “I find a chord progression that interests me and then I start singing gibberish,” Saliers says. “It used to start with lyrics, but recently, it’s been about finding the music first.”Īlthough they’re a pair, they start the songwriting process separately. “When I’m writing, I sit down with an instrument and just start playing and when something feels like it has something to it, I look through my lyric journal and see if there’s anything that matches up,” says Ray. School of Music junior Q El-Amin asks the Indigo Girls about their process for creating music, specifically if they focus on lyrics or melody first. “It seemed like maybe they didn’t practice with the symphony before the sound check so for them to be able to run a soundcheck and sound like that is amazing,” Johnson says. Sophomore Mycah Johnson reflected on the ease of the Indigo Girls collaboration with the orchestra. “We don’t want anyone to get bored while we’re playing.” “Our basic directive was to be really dramatic,” Ray says. The event is part of the University Concert and Lecture Series, the longest running series of its kind in North Carolina, that gives students the chance to learn and hear from prolific experts in the performing arts world. “They just seem to work really well together and whoever writes scores for them has done a really good job. ![]() “I do not like acoustic guitar but I think this sounds pretty fantastic with the orchestra backing,” says G Cooper-Volkheimer, a first-year Masters student in the School of Music. The blended sound was a surprise for several students coming to attend the duo’s soundcheck and subsequent Q & A session before their performance with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra on January 13. “There’s an agency that puts these things together and we were very excited about that because we’ve never done it before.” Be dramatic “Somewhere along our path, we got invited to be artists that get to play with symphonies,” says Saliers. Recognized for their folk-rock hits, Ray and Saliers took on a new challenge in 2012: taking acoustic-heavy hits like “Power of Two” and making them with the power of an orchestra. The pair, best known as the GRAMMY-winning Indigo Girls, have sold over 14 million records and are the only duo with top 40 titles on the Billboard 200 in the ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘00s and ‘10s. “As long as we’re going to have a symphony, let’s make it big and bombastic when it needs to be. ![]() ![]() Emily Saliers (middle) and Amy Ray (right), best known as the Indigo Girls, speak to students in the UNCG Auditorium during a Q&A session moderated by School of Music professor Mark Engebretson (left).Īmy Ray and Emily Saliers sat in front of the UNCG Auditorium stage, both casual and unassuming their quiet demeanor was a sharp contrast to the powerful music they belted out just minutes before in their sound check with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. ![]()
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