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I'm Christa Tippett and this is On Being's Unheard Cut. Up next, my unedited conversation with

Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Sailliers. There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever

you found this podcast.

Are we here? Okay. Hello. Emily. How does me?

So, yeah. Okay. Make sure my phone's on silent.

Yeah, it's on the... Oh.

Okay. So, after a biblical reign, the faithful are still gathered.

Kind of amazing. And here we are at a festival named after a Celtic Christian metaphor for the

unpredictable spirit of God. We have 45 minutes. We're going to just dive right in.

So, this festival brings together, it takes place at the convergence of music and spirituality

and justice in the arts. And it seems to me that that convergence has been there for each of you

for a long time. And I thought, I always asked this question at the beginning of my interviews

who have our interviewing quantum physicists or a musician, you know, about the spiritual background

of their childhood. That I think, you know, so I want to ask that question. But also, as you reflect on

that, kind of sense for each of you that music was all always in there. And maybe even justice in the

arts in that way. I'll start. Well, my dad is a Methodist minister and a theologian and he taught

it Emory and Candle School Theology. And so, yay, dad. He's a Germanic right now doing something

theological over there. Yeah, you were raised in the bosom of church music. Yeah.

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