BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls DESCRIPTION:Melissa Etheridge &\; Indigo Girls\n\n\n\nMelissa Etherid ge stormed onto the American rock scene in 1988 with the release of her critically acclaimed self-titled debut album\, which led to an appearanc e on the 1989 Grammy Awards show. For several years\, her popularity gre w around such memorable originals as "Bring Me Some Water\," "No Souveni rs" and "Ain't It Heavy\," for which she won a Grammy in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album\, \;Ye s I Am \;(1993). The collection featured the massive hits\, "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window\," a searing song of longing that brou ght Etheridge her second Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995\, Etheridge issued her highest charting album\, \;Your Littl e Secret\, which was distinguished by the hit single\, "I Want to Come O ver." Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the So ngwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996.\n\n\n\nKnown for her confessional lyrics and raspy\, smoky vocals\, Etheridge has re mained one of America's favorite female singers for more than two decade s. In February 2007\, Melissa Etheridge celebrated a career milestone wi th a victory in the "Best Song" category at the Academy Awards for "I Ne ed to Wake Up\," written for the Al Gore documentary on global warming\, An Inconvenient Truth. As a performer and songwriter\, Etheridge has sh own herself to be an artist who has never allowed "inconvenient truths" to keep her down. Earlier in her recording career\, Etheridge acknowledg ed her sexual orientation when it was considered less than prudent to do so. In October 2004\, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer\, a he alth battle that\, with her typical tenacity\, she won. Despite losing h er hair from chemotherapy\, Etheridge appeared on the 2005 Grammy teleca st to sing "Piece of My Heart" in tribute to Janis Joplin. By doing so s he gave hope to many women afflicted with the disease.\n\n\n\n2024 saw M elissa release \;Melissa Etheridge: I'm Not Broken\, a two-part docu series (Paramount+) and accompanying live album. Recorded live within th e grounds of the Topeka Correctional facility the album and two-part doc useries follows her journey both penning and performing an original song inspired by her correspondence with residents of the TCF and features r aw and rousing versions of specially curated fan favorites and original songs.\n\n\n\nAcross four decades\, 16 studio albums\, and over 15 milli on records sold\, Indigo Girls continue to blaze the trail for generatio ns of Queer artists in the mainstream. The Grammy-winning duo of Emily S aliers and Amy Ray began their career in clubs and bars around their nat ive Atlanta\, GA amidst a blossoming alternative music scene before sign ing to Epic Records in 1988. Indigo Girls’ eponymous major label debut sold over two million copies under the power of singles “Closer to Fi ne” and “Kid Fears” and introduced the duo’s signature harmonies and stirring\, sophisticated songs to a dedicated\, enduring global aud ience. Indigo Girls was the first of six consecutive Gold and/or Platinu m-certified albums. Their latest record\, Look Long\, is a heartfelt and eclectic collection of songs that finds the duo reunited in the studio with their strongest backing band to date. “We joke about being old\, but what is old when it comes to music? We’re still a bar band at hear t\,” says Saliers. “While our lyrics and writing approach may change \, our passion for music feels the same as it did when we were 25 years old.”\n\n\n\nCommitted and uncompromising activists\, Saliers and Ray work on issues like racial justice and reproductive rights (Project Say Something)\, immigration reform (El Refugio)\, LGBTQ advocacy\, educatio n (Imagination Library)\, death penalty reform\, and Native American rig hts (First Peoples Fund).\n\n\n\n“As time has gone on\, our audience h as become more expansive and diverse\, giving me a sense of joy\,” say s Saliers. Recently\, “Closer to Fine” featured prominently in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film Barbie and introduced Indigo Girls’ music to a new generation of listeners. Released in 2024\, their critically-a cclaimed documentary Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All (directed by Alexandria Bombach) blends 40 years of home movies\, raw film archive \, and intimate present-day verité into a soulful career retrospective. A New York Times Critic’s Pick\, the documentary premiered opening ni ght at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and went on to screen at SXSW\ , Tribeca Film Festival\, and Hot Docs before releasing to Netflix. A th ird film\, director Tom Gustafson’s 2023 jukebox musical Glitter &\ ; Doom tells the tale of a whirlwind summer romance through inventive re imaginations of classic Indigo Girls songs. Glitter &\; Doom boasts a star-studded queer supporting cast featuring Lea DeLaria\, Tig Notaro\, Kate Pierson (The B-52s)\, RuPaul's Drag Race alum Peppermint\, and eve n a cameo from Amy and Emily themselves.\n\n\n\nWhile Rolling Stone desc ribes them as “ideal duet partners\,” Indigo Girls’ live performan ces aren’t so much duets as they are community experiences—massive g roup singalongs together with their audience. To hear those collective v oices raise into one\, overpowering the band itself\, one realizes the i mportance Indigo Girls’ music has in this moment. In our often-terrify ing present\, we are all in search of a daily refuge\, a stolen hour or two\, to engage with something that brings us joy\, perspective\, or may be just calm. As one bar band once put it\, “We go to the doctor\, we go to the mountains…we go to the Bible\, we go through the work out. For millions\, they go to the Indigo Girls: a creative partnership cer tain of its bearings\, forging a way forward. 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