Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village.
Indigo Girls performing on August 4, 2002
After forming their duo in college, the Indigo Girls played small clubs in the Emory Village district of Druid Hills, Georgia.
Indigo Girls performing in 2005.
Performing at The Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2018
Decatur is a city in, and the county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. With a population of 24,928 in the 2020 census, the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple ZIP Codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear Decatur as the address. The city is served by three MARTA rail stations. The city is located approximately five miles northeast of Downtown Atlanta and shares its western border with both the city of Atlanta and unincorporated DeKalb County. The Druid Hills neighborhood is to the northwest of Decatur.
Old DeKalb County Courthouse
Downtown Decatur
Decatur High School
The Decatur Square gazebo from the old courthouse steps, prior to the removal of the Confederate monument