Feature Image Credit Sandlin Gaither
The Amy Ray Band (of Indigo Girls) have four appearances in the Southeast coming up in May, including a Nashville City Winery show on Wednesday, May 15 with spoken word artist Minton Sparks, a “Farm and Fun Time” PBS broadcast from the Birthplace of Country Music in Bristol, TN on May 16, a sold-out Duluth, GA show and the “Grey Eagle 30th Anniversary w/ Budos Band, Amy Ray Band and more” on Saturday, May 18 in Asheville, NC at The Outpost.
“Farm and Fun Time” can be streamed live on May 16 at Radio Bristol from 7-9 pm Eastern and is recorded for syndication on Blue Ridge PBS, East Tennessee PBS, and PBS North Carolina with plans for expanding to PBS stations nationwide.
Ray’s most recent solo album, If It All Goes South, features a stunning collection of songs dealing with Ray’s conflicted relationship with her beloved South. The album reached the Americana radio album chart Top 10 and found Amy and her band making their Grand Ole Opry debut.
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AMY RAY BAND
WED, 5.15 Nashville, TN – City Winery with Minton Sparks
THU, 5.16 Bristol Fun and Farm event PBS taping, 7 pm ET
FRI, 5.17 Duluth, GA – Eddie’s Red Clay (sold out)
SAT, 5.18 Asheville, NC – The Outpost “Grey Eagle 30th Anniversary”
PRAISE FOR IF IT ALL GOES SOUTH
“Amy Ray has reached another milestone” —Relix
“There’s nothing quite like watching people do the thing they’ve spent a lifetime training to do: Winning Wimbledon, dancing lead in Giselle, breaking a 1,000-year-old Viking weightlifting record, cooking dinner in 8 minutes and 37 seconds. Listening to If It All Goes South, the latest solo outing from Indigo Girls co-founder Amy Ray, falls under that umbrella.” —No Depression
“Ray clearly possesses an emotional clarity as well as the innate ability to shift the settings, a skill that results in a varied set of songs that can be, by degrees, both tender and tempestuous.”
—American Songwriter (4/5)
“a creation that’s uniquely Ray and uniquely Southern, with its driving Dobro guitar and lively fingerpicking set to an imaginative folk-art romp” —Garden & Gun (“Joy Train” video premiere)
“She always finds a powerful and often positive spin to drive her songs, whether they talk of community, inclusivity, social justice, the climate emergency or coping with loss.” —Holler UK
“the production captures the energy and immediacy that you only get from a band flying live and without a net” —Salvation South
Tickets on sale now.
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I am a Nashville-based live music photographer and visual artist. One of my earliest memories is sneaking up to the front of the venue with my parents’ disposable camera to try to capture photos of Martina McBride. I think I was about six. You can often find me traveling the world to catch my favorite artists in action. I have been lucky enough to shoot legends such as Stevie Nicks, Blondie, and Lucinda Williams.
