The Buskirk-Chumley Theater proudly presents The Indigo Girls on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8 PM. Tickets are $36 reserved seating and are available now through the BCT Box Office, 114 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 812 323 3020 or online at www.buskirkchumley.org. More information about this concert and all other events at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater can be found on www.buskirkchumley.org.
Six years after appearing on stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Grammy® award winning folk duo The Indigo Girls, are returning to Bloomington, Indiana. Amy Ray and Emily Sallier’s sold out performance at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater started off a miraculous rise in the artists offered in the BCT presents season, which has seen the likes of Lyle Lovett, Joan Baez, John Hiatt, The Temptations and many other award winning artists.

Their prolific career includes 15 albums and their awards and recognitions are numerous, listing 20 entries on the Billboard® charts, 8 Billboard® singles, and a Grammy® Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, for their album Indigo Girls. Many other albums have been recognized by the recording industry for their audience response, reaching platinum for 1992’s Rites of Passage and reaching gold for Nomads & Indians, the single Back on the Bus, Y’all and the album Swamp Ophelia. Indigo Girls’ songs have been used in many different motion pictures and TV series, including the CBS crime thriller Cold Case.
Long time activists for human rights, Ray and Salliers are not only identified as leaders of the movement for LGBTQ rights and equality, but are recognized for their efforts for women’s rights, poverty awareness, environmental sustainability and the rights of Native Americans. In addition to numerous appearances during tribute concerts, their efforts include an appearance on the notorious album I’m Not Dead by the artist Pink. In this vocal confrontation with President George W. Bush they criticized everything from war and poverty to No Child Left Behind and the Bush administration’s approach to LGBTQ rights.












