Lily Madeleine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz aren t the youngest musicians ever to play the Tiny Desk, but they come pretty close. Their music a restrained, homespun mix of folk and pop with undeniably sweet harmonies certainly ranks among the loveliest we ve heard. Lily is just 16. Her sister Madeleine is 18. And while the older of the two Indiana natives recently headed off to college, leaving her sister behind to finish high school, they still write and record together. They released a stellar EP, The Weight of the Globe, last June, and a selftitled fulllength debut followed in October. Lily Madeleine s openhearted ballads first found an audience in the fall of 2012, after the pair posted a video for In the Middle on YouTube. It quickly received more than a quarter of a million views enough to draw the attention of the Sufjan Stevensled Asthmatic Kitty label, which signed the sisters and released both their EP and their fulllength album. For the duo s Tiny Desk set, Lily Madeleine chose not to