[Unedited] Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls with Krista Tippett

Published: June 27, 2019, 8:27 p.m.

The folk-rock duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making music for over 25 years. They\u2019re known for their social activism on-stage and off, but long before they became the Indigo Girls, they were singing in church choirs. They see music as a continuum of human existence, intertwined with spiritual life in a way that can\u2019t be pinned down.\nAmy Ray is a singer-songwriter who is one half of the folk-rock duo Indigo Girls. Her latest solo album, \u201cHoller,\u201d was released in September 2018.\nEmily Saliers is a singer-songwriter who is one half of the folk-rock duo Indigo Girls. She is also the co-author of \u201cA Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as a Spiritual Practice.\u201d Her debut album, \u201cMurmuration Nation,\u201d was released in 2017.\nThis interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode \u201cIndigo Girls \u2014 No Separation: On Music and Transcendence\u201d Find more at onbeing.org.