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Twenty years after they began releasing records as the Indigo Girls, "Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have refused to slow down and have been producing some of their best music yet," a Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall news release says. The duo will appear with a symphony orches- tra on the Van Wezel stage in Sarasota on March 27. After signing with Epic Records in 1988, the Indigo Girls released their first album, "for which they received thunderous praise, double platinum status" and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, the release adds. The duo won Best Contemporary Folk Recording honors that year and "seemingly skyrocketed as folk icons overnight," the release continues. "Nine albums later, the Indigo Girls have gone back to their roots of self-producing and have blazed four new albums with their rekindled fire: Poseidon and the Bitter Bug, Holly Happy Days, Staring Down the Brilliant Dream and Beauty Queen Sister," the release points out. Their new material is a product of their hearts, not their heads, ruling their per- formances, according to the release. Tickets are priced from $45 to $75. For more information, call the box office at 953-3368 or visit VanWezel.org. INDIGO GIRLS AND A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO COLLABORATE Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are the Indigo Girls. Contributed photo by Lynn Goldsmith Sarasota News Leader March 21, 2014 Page 120