Amy Ray

Each month explores a different theme, and with this month’s focus on folk music, Ray makes a natural fit for hosting the show. The concert will feature three Atlanta folk artists: Rising Appalachia, Eliot Bronson and Joy Conaway. Before Ray hits the stage tomorrow, she joined “City Lights” senior producer Kim Drobes via Zoom to talk about her life in Georgia folk music.

(Eastport, ME) Artist Amy Ray will exhibit a large body of ink paintings at the Eastport Arts Center May 23 through June 26, 2022. On Sunday, June 5 there will be an opening artist’s reception from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. Gulf of Maine, Inc. will be present at the opening reception offering samples and information about their work in Pembroke.

Photographer Julie Blackmon’s work is a mash-up of pop phenomena, consumer culture, social satire and the sometime messiness of domestic and everyday life. Her exhibit at Jackson Fine Art takes its title from her photograph Metaverse, which depicts a hectic household scene unfolding around a toddler clad in a virtual reality headset. Blackmon will be present for the opening reception Friday 6-8 p.m. and will give an artist talk Saturday at 11 a.m. Masks optional.

Gregory Dwane has been through it. The Trinity, N.C., native spent the '90s producing and playing in punk bands in New York City, until everything fell apart due to his drinking. A lifeline from a friend led to work on road crews, then to a jingle-writing gig and a new...

Photo by Sarah Pearson, via Amy-Ray.com. This Saturday, July 31, Motorco Music Hall in Durham will host the Amy Ray Band (with S.G. Goodman) as part of a series of outdoor shows called Live! in the Lot. Best known as one half of the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray has also...

Amy Ray has a new solo tune and tour, plus new shows as one-half of Indigo Girls on the way, so we caught up with the Decatur native to find out what it’s like being back on the road, recording a new album, and working with a “game changing” nonprofit in her hometown. You can […] The post Amy Ray is ‘psyched’ for upcoming Brookhaven performance appeared first on Reporter Newspapers.

Amy Ray releases a new single this week titled "Chuck Will's Widow," her 3rd in a series of solo singles released this past year. "Chuck Will's Widow" is available on all digital service providers on today and features guests Michelle Malone and The War and Treaty. The song, inspired by the mournful calls of the nightbird, resonated with Amy, a confessed night owl and premiered this week on Folk Alley. They write: "The sparse opening ripples out into an exuberant and jubilant wave of sound as pedal steel, dobro, guitar, mandolin, and accordion circle around one another as Michelle Malone and the War and Treaty move the song onto a higher plane with their glorious harmonies."

The Amy Ray Band is hitting the road for a few summer shows in the southeastern US during Amy's short break from Indigo Girls’ touring. The dates coincide with the upcoming release of Amy's next single, “Chuck Will’s Widow,” her 3rd in a series of solo singles released this past year.

Indigo Girls, the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are set to play the Frontyard Festival in downtown Orlando this weekend, and peeping the current schedule they look to be the last big touring act to do so. If this is indeed the last hurrah for the Frontyard Festival,...

From acclaimed musician and author Kristin Hersh comes a beautifully written memoir that takes readers on an emotional journey through the artist’s life as she reflects on thirty years of music and motherhood. A Cappella Books welcomes Hersh for an exclusive virtual event in honor of her new book, “Seeing...

Amy Ray is premiering the video for her new single “Muscadine” today with Garden & Gun. The song features Merge Records artist H.C. McEntire and is available through all digital service providers and Amy's own Daemon Records HERE. The song was penned by Amy Ray and recorded with her band remotely in their respective homes. Amy sings this story of love and loss over a landscape of haunting melodic keyboard drones, mixed with acoustic guitar, dobro, pedal steel, and fiddle, laid over a heartbeat of rhythm and bass. Alt-Americana, North Carolinian and Merge Records artist H.C. McEntire (Mount Moriah) provides a whole chorus of backing vocals that are her own special flavor of sweet and devastating.