The Gals in KZoo

My favorite musical lesbians will be onstage tonight, and I'll be right there in the audience.

After 20 years of growing up with The Indigo Girls, my mom blasting their folk-rock guitar sound in the car while she chaperoned school field trips, or burning nag champa incense to their sweet harmonies in our house, I finally will see them in concert.

When I taught myself to play the guitar, their "Closer to Fine" was one of the first songs I mastered, and it's still one of my favorites to play. This summer, I jammed to the bold proclamations of feminism and social justice in "Pendulum Swinger."

Tonight, I'm excited to hear some of their newer stuff, but I hope they throw in some oldies-but-goodies, a few picks from the early 90s...those were the days.