Indigo Girl Amy Ray will be a guest this Thursday at 7:30 pm on Fresh Fruit, the longest running queer radio show in the country. Celebrating the show's 30 years on the air, hosts Dixie Treichel and John Townsend will also welcome guest John Killacky, one of the pioneers of the Fresh Fruit program. This special pledge drive show will focus on arts and activism.

Amy Ray is a singer-songwriter, musician, member of the well-known contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls, founder of the indie label Daemon Records and a human rights activist that includes Queer, Native American and Enviromental issues. Her new solo CD, Didn't It Feel Kinder was released August 2008 and she is currently touring the country.

In Didn't It Feel Kinder, Amy Ray's third solo recording and most ambitious independent effort to date, the singer-songwriter's style and lyricism reflects her many musical influences, breaking new ground for avid Indigo Girls followers and her solo career fans alike.

Amy Ray says, “In musical terms, I didn’t even really know what I wanted this record to be. I knew I wanted it to be a wide-open vista, the prairie at twilight, a mountain road at 3am, a heartbreaking news broadcast. I wanted to use every voice I had inside me, every voice I had come across and absorbed. I didn’t want to be limited by habit or insecurity or gender or place.”

Amy Ray will be performing in Minneapolis at the Fine Line Music Café on Friday, October 24, 2008.

John Killacky was a host on Fresh Fruit in the early years and currently is program officer for arts and culture for The San Francisco Foundation.

He previously served as executive director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for six years and was curator of performing arts for the Walker Art Center for eight years. He has also served as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant for a broad range of arts and funding organizations, has written numerous publications on the arts and written and directed several award winning short films and videos.