Thanks for posting this, Kat!Good grief, I listen to NPR all the time, including last Sunday. How did I miss this? And I also note from their web site, if I'm reading it correctly, that they were in Seattle last Tuesday!!!
Authenticity is great in its place, but sometimes it can be a sacred cow. Indeed, were I to be totally without humor and needlessly nit-picky, I could raise an eyebrow at some of the harmonies they use—not that there is anything wrong with fairly lush harmonies, but I don't think that sort of harmony was extant during medieval times—but wotthehell archie wotthehell! They sound great! And the general style and the instrumentation they use evokes a medieval aura. I like 'em!!
Some men just get real nervous around real women.
Don Firth