Text and photos by Ariel Soto
There something incredibly nostalgic about the Indigo Girls. When I hear them I'm transported straight back to the freshman dorm room that I shared with my roomie Melbell, which was affectionately called the hippie-love room by the rest of our floor. There was a constant soundtrack of Indigo Girls and Joni Mitchell blasting from our speakers, and when we finally got to see the Indigo Girls live on campus, my girlfriends and I all braided our hair and donned colorful floral scarves around our waists.
The Indigo Girls are always connected to a movement. That first time I saw them they were performing along with speaker Winona Laduke as part of a Native American rights gathering. I later saw them at Power to the Peaceful where their message was all pro-peace and anti-war. Tuesday night, at their performance at the Fillmore, the message focused on equal marriage rights and compassion for all. It's great that there are still musicians in the world who carry with them passionate lyrics that actually mean something, while at the same time being amazingly talented musicians.
The openers for the evening were a folk band called Common Rotation who were definite crowd-pleasers, even though most of their songs were tragic love stories. But then the Indigo Girls took the stage and you could see everyone in the room being transported to another time and another place, to pure folk-time bliss.
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Comments (1)
Great pictures.
Posted by Dave Zeman | July 24, 2009 07:36 AM