The dream-team co-bill will is scheduled to play 9 shows together on the West Coast — kicking things off in Santa Barbara, January 15th — TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!
January 15 Marjorie Luke Theatre – Santa Barbara, CA
January 16 Troubadour – West Hollywood, CA
January 18 The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
January 19 Center for the Arts – Grass Valley, CA
January 20 Rouge Theater – Grants Pass, OR
January 21 MacDonald Theater – Eugene, OR
January 23 Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
January 24 Capital Theater – Olympia, WA
January 25 Neptune Theater – Seattle, WA
LESLIE DINABERG / Santa Barbara Independent — No matter what genre of music she’s playing — from the punk rock of her 2001 solo debut, Stag, to the country crooning of her 2014 album, Goodnight Tender, and the tight catchy harmonies of the folk-pop Indigo Girls, a performing duo since 1981 — singer/songwriter Amy Ray’s big-hearted, optimistic spirit shines through with every note.
She’ll be in Santa Barbara with the Amy Ray Band, co-headlining an evening at the Marjorie Luke Theatre with pop-folk alt-country artist Dar Williams on Monday, January 15. Ray will also be back in town this fall with fellow Indigo Girl Emily Saliers, performing at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday, September 21.
While next week’s show will draw from all 10 of Ray’s solo albums, the group’s most recent album, If It All Goes South — an intimate and powerful work featuring guests like Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, and I’m with Her (whose band member Sarah Jarosz will perform a solo show at the Lobero on February 29) — will be at the forefront.
It’s a longtime collaboration. “Except for the keyboard player, we’ve been playing together for 12 years,” Ray told me in a phone interview from her home in rural Georgia, her home state. While the eight-member band makes touring a bit more complicated, not to mention expensive, Ray says, “We kind of play the best when we’re all together. And it’s a big band. So it’s kind of a heavy lift, but it’s just, we’re happiest when we’re all playing together and we don’t have to compensate for someone not being there.”