Indigo Girls: Strange Fire Piano/Vocal/Guitar/Cords

The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Saliers (b. 1963) plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village. Strange Fire (1987) was their first full-length album. It was originally released independently on Indigo Records in Canada with eleven tracks. Epic Records signed the duo in 1988. Songs include "Strange Fire", "Crazy Game", "Left Me a Fool", "I Don't Wanna Know", "Hey Jesus", "Get Together", "Walk Away", "Make It Easier", "You Left It up to Me", and "Land of Canaan". The album eventually went platinum. Since Strange Fire, they have recorded 16 more albums. The Indigo Girls have been politically active. They have championed the causes and held benefit concerts for the environment, gay rights, the rights of Native Americans, and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. For many years they incorporated a recycling and public outreach program into their road tours by including Greenpeace representative Stephanie Fairbanks in their road crew. They helped Winona LaDuke establish Honor the Earth, an organization dedicated to creating support and education for native environmental issues. They made several cameo appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom "Ellen". In the episode "Womyn Fest" Ellen and her friends are attending a feminist music festival and catch the end of a performance by the Indigo Girls. They are mentioned multiple times in the 1995 Stephen King novel Rose Madder as well as being mentioned in TV shows "Will and Grace", "South Park", and "30 Rock".