Katharine Blake Quotes (2 Quotes)

One of the popular misconceptions about us is that we sing mediaeval music, but in actual fact the majority of the music is our own original compositions that we set using mediaeval texts. I love setting texts to music... anonymous poets from 700 years ago. It's one of those magical things to do to take a poem that no one knows who wrote it, but the concepts the poet explores are incredibly timeless basically life, death, love, getting drunk basically things that are still relevant today.

It surprised everybody because the initial motivation was just recreationally oriented, but we all share a fascination with all things romantic and the mediaeval period, that enigmatic period is open to a lot of interpretation.