Indigo Girls to Perform with the North Carolina Symphony, 4/15

Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers will be performing one show with the North Carolina Symphony Wednesday, April 15 at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC).

With 14 albums to their credit and a career that spans decades, the iconic duo continues to challenge themselves creatively, adding to a body of work that contains such hits and fan favorites as "Galileo" and "Love of Our Lives." As described in a review by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "this setting provided a freshness that only added, never subtracted, from their songs."

For their symphony performances, the Indigo girls brought in musical arrangers Sean O'Loughlin (Chris Isaak, Feist, The Decemberists, Josh Ritter) and Stephen Barber (Rosanne Cash, Alejandro Escovedo, John Legend) to write orchestral charts for a selection of songs spanning their career, from the 1980s through their most recent release, Beauty Queen Sister, on IG Recordings/ Vanguard. For Ray and Emily Saliers, who've been performing together for over two decades, this is a chance to hear their music performed in a new way and to also bring something special to their fans. It's an idea they both agree has been a long time coming.

Says Saliers, "I was always awed at Paul Buckmaster's orchestral arrangements for Elton John. Much later on, I was struck by Nanci Griffith's music when played with an orchestra so I knew it was exciting to hear artists with orchestras. I think Amy and I just decided it was time for us to do it at this point, something new and different and inspiring."

"It can bring new dimension to old songs as well as highlight songs that have string arrangements on the recordings but were never played live in an orchestrated configuration," adds Ray.

Tickets can be purchased at Ticketmaster or www.dpacnc.com.