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Tonight's Top Stop: Indigo Girls

KEEP PLAYING, AND YOU'LL GO TO THE DOCTOR, ALL RIGHT: The best way to listen to the Indigo Girls is, of course, to be lounging around a campfire while some can't-play-anything-but-major-chords hack on a guitar tries to seduce the females by crooning "Closer to Fine." Their voices only make a sound if the other is harmonizing.(If you went to college, you know what we're talking about.) Oh wait, no no no, we meant that's the worst way. A slightly better alternative might be to seek out the queens of folk-rock harmonizing at Wolf Trap, where you can still get the acoustic-outdoorsy-echo effect from the music, but won't feel the urge to jam any talentless pretty-boy's face into smoldering coals.

The vocally intertwined duo is touring in support of their upcoming album, "Despite Our Differences," due out in September. Interesting side note: A recent scientific study showed that 82 percent of all Indigo Girls' music is experienced on a grassy patch while sitting Indian style on a blanket.
Courtesy Columbia Festival
» Wolf Trap, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna; 8 p.m., $36, with Three5Human; 703-255-1868 (shuttle from West Falls Church)

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