The unmistakable folk sounds of the Indigo Girls and the hard blues-rock chords of George Thorogood & The Destroyers will engulf the Newport Yachting Center’s Nantucket Nectars Sunset Music Series on Thursday, July 29 and Friday, July 30, respectively. Tickets be purchased at the tiered pricing levels of $50 for preferred and $35 for standard for the Indigo Girls and $47/$32 for George Thorogood at www.newportwaterfrontevents.com or by calling the Newport Yachting Center Box Office at 846-1600.

The Indigo Girls’ opening act will be folk acoustic guitar-bass duo Coyote Grace, with Smithfield’s Emily Smith and Synergy gracing the smaller Courtyard Stage. George Thorogood & The Destroyers will feature the eclectic mix of Providence’s Cadillac Martini with popular singer Keturah Burgess, as its opener while indie rock and pop singer-songwriter John Windle of Providence will get things started on the Courtyard Stage.

The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, released their self-titled album in 1988 and its hit single, "Closer To Fine,” proceeded to go platinum and win the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. The band was also nominated for Best New Artist that year. The Indigo Girls took off from there by releasing several albums in the ’90s that went gold or platinum, including Rites of Passage featuring "Galileo," the duo’s first Top 10 Modern Rock track.

The Delaware-based blues rockers George Thorogood & The Destroyers are best known for the hit song “Bad to the Bone” as well as a series of covers of blues standards such as Hank William’s “Move It On Over” and Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” Thorogood and his band have released 16 studio albums since they got their start in the mid-’70s, including five that have been certified gold.

For more information on the Nantucket Nectars Sunset Music Series, go to www.newportwaterfrontevents.com or contact Michele Maker Palmieri, General Manager at the Newport Yachting Center, 4 Commercial Wharf, Newport, at 846-1600, ext. 222.