Indigo Girls w/ Linda Perry

The Read

The Indigo Girls’ whole architecture is the contrast between them: Saliers writing the melodic, literate songs and Ray supplying the rougher, more urgent counterweight, with harmonies that lock in a way only long partnerships produce. The catalog has aged into something closer to folk canon than to the college-radio moment it emerged from. Linda Perry, a songwriter with an entirely different career arc, opens. The Ryman is the ideal room for two acoustic guitars and two voices, and this audience will sing along whether invited or not. Expect long-standing fans who have followed this band across decades, expect at least one song to be turned over to the crowd entirely, expect the between-song talk to be political and unhurried. A seven o’clock start on a Wednesday.

The Room

Ryman Auditorium

116 5th Ave N

Built in 1892 as a tabernacle by river captain Thomas Ryman, who was converted at a Sam Jones revival — little did he know it would become the church of American roots music.