The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.

Outside of working on Indigo Girls-related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non profit organization that promotes independent musicians, while Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author ; she also collaborates with her father, Dr. Don Saliers, in performing for special groups / causes.

Both Saliers and Ray self-identify as lesbian and are active in political and environmental causes.

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first met and got to know each other as students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia, just outside of Decatur, Georgia, but were not friends because Saliers was a grade older than Ray.

While attending Shamrock High School ( now Shamrock Middle School ), they became better acquainted, and started performing together, first as " The B-Band " and then as " Saliers and Ray ".

This album is their first fully independent release since 1987's Strange Fire, and their first two-CD set since 1995's live album 1200 Curfews ; the first disc has the 10 tracks accompanied by a backing band, and the second includes the same 10 songs with only Ray and Saliers on vocals and acoustic guitars, and an additional track.

Ray and Saliers do not ordinarily collaborate in writing songs.

Finally, " I'll Give You My Skin ," which appears both on Tame Yourself ( Benefit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) and on the Indigo Girls release Rarities, is a collaborative work by Ray, Saliers, and Michael Stipe which is doubly rare, as Saliers and Ray usually write their songs without outside collaborators.

Ray and Saliers appeared in the latter half of the feature film Boys on the Side, playing short excerpts from their songs " Joking " and " Southland in the Springtime ," as well as singing " Feliz Cumpleaños " (" Happy Birthday " in Spanish ) with the gathered group of friends during the birthday cake scene, and standing on the far side of several shots over the next few scenes.

Ray played the role of Jesus and Saliers played the role of Mary Magdalene.

Both Ray and Saliers have long identified themselves as lesbians.

Ray and Saliers have also appeared at the annual SOA Watch rallies, the March for Women's Lives, and several other rallies and protests.

The Allmusic review noted that " Amy Ray and Emily Saliers continue to hone their signature lush melodies .... he Indigo Girls are no longer afraid to hit upon past relationships and personal emotion.

Amy RayBorn in Decatur, Georgia, Amy Ray met Emily Saliers when they both attended the same high school.

After graduation, Ray and Saliers went to different colleges with Ray attending Vanderbilt University.

Saliers first met her future Indigo Girls counterpart Amy Ray when they were students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia.

In 2006, the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company produced and performed the New York City premiere of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 at 59E59 Theaters.

* " Tammy " – written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans ; performed by Debbie Reynolds

The opening credits musical theme is by an uncredited Irving Gertz, with a trumpet solo performed by Ray Anthony.

He confronted Telecom over the colour of public telephone boxes, played for the local rugby team, heckled Christian evangelist Ray Comfort, evaded the compulsory census, and performed three drought-breaking rain dances in Canterbury, Auckland and the Australian outback.

The music in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and Ray Davies has performed solo since then.

In the early 1990s Ray performed at various E17 venues, including the Royal Standard, as part of local pop group ' The Cutting Room '.

More recently, singers Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, and Ray Charles have performed.

The 1968 follow-up LP, In Search of the Lost Chord included " Legend of a Mind ", a song written by Ray Thomas in tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary which encompassed a flute solo performed by Thomas – four members of the group had taken LSD together at the start of 1967.

Following his signing to Motown's Tamla label, Gaye having been inspired by such singers like Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to perform standards, figuring the move would make him a crossover success, rather than perform the usual R & B performed on Motown, bringing him to conflict with the label.

In December of ' 83, Stevie Ray recorded a CD and DVD session with Albert King and also that same December 1983, Double Trouble performed for a taping of Austin City Limits ; the show aired on February 28, 1984, and featured Jimmie's band, The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

After a stint as a bugler in the United States Army during World War II, Hirt performed with various Swing big bands, including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Ina Ray Hutton.

The grave of Coleman HawkinsIn the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson ( piano ), Herb Ellis ( guitar ), Ray Brown ( bass ), and Alvin Stoller ( drums ).

Duets were performed by Morrison with Ray Charles and Bob Dylan.

** Kevin Reagan ( art director ) for Ray of Light performed by Madonna

** George Johnson, Louis Johnson and Sonora Sam for " I'll Be Good to You " performed by Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

*" Calling Joe Hill " by Ray Hearne is frequently performed by Roy Bailey, a British socialist folk singer.

Several well known entertainers performed at PLU including Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, The Steve Miller Band, The Righteous Brothers, B. B.

** Steve Allen & Ray Brown ( composers ) for " Gravy Waltz " performed by Steve Allen

** Ray Conniff ( choir director ) for " Somewhere My Love ( Lara's Theme From Dr. Zhivago )" performed by the Ray Conniff Singers

The instrumental theme song for The Honeymooners, " You're My Greatest Love ", was composed by Gleason and performed by an orchestra led by Ray Bloch ( who had previously served as orchestra leader on Gleason's variety show, as well as The Ed Sullivan Show ).

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

** Buddy Jackson, Ray Benson & Sally Carns ( art directors ) for Ride With Bob performed by Asleep at the Wheel

Country Dick Montana of the Beat Farmers, who was a close friend of Nixon's, was eulogized on Nixon's 1999 album, The Real Sock Ray Blue, after his 1995 death onstage of a heart attack.

Ray Charles referred to Little Richard as being the artist that started a new kind of music, which was a funky style of rock n roll that he was performing onstage for a few years before appearing on record in 1955 as " Tutti Frutti.

A famous live performance of the song on Top of the Pops saw The Faces joined onstage by DJ John Peel, who pretended to play the mandolin ( the mandolin player on the recording was Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne ).

Avory made a special guest appearance onstage at Ray Davies ' Royal Albert Hall performance on 10 May 2007.

Ray Haller joined Metallica onstage on 7 December 2011 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA for Metallica's 30th Anniversary show.

Each of the Nashville concerts featured a long list of special guests appearing onstage with Charlie and his band including Ted Nugent, The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, Billy Joel, Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tammy Wynette, Roy Acuff, Carl Perkins, Alabama, Don Henley, Barefoot Jerry and many more.