Tristin Chipman & Emily Saliers

Emily Saliers was on tour in Vancouver for her band Indigo Girls when she announced that she was married. It seems that she married her longtime partner and former tour manager, Tristin Chipman, in 2013 in New York. The crowd met her announcement with applause and plenty of banter about Canadian women before Saliers continued with the set. The pair tied the knot in New York in the hopes of getting a green card.

The couple shares a daughter whom they dote on. The two worked together on being friends but fell in love over the years. Chipman is a music producer back in Toronto and Saliers was worried that, without a green card, she will not be able to work in the U.S. To her credit, the singer has been advocating for changes in laws about same-sex marriage, especially in immigration. Nowadays, they are staying in their vacation home and home-schooling their daughter.