I recently interrupted Ty Greenstein, Doris Muramatsu and Nate Borofsky scarfing down a pre-gig snack at Dolores Park Café in San Francisco. The trio of thirty-year-olds, who are as charming as their music, discussed their musical family, performing with the Indigo Girls, and whether bacon is the secret of youth. (It is.)

AE: Where are you touring right now?
Doris: Going up the (West) coast, heading toward Portland. Last year we did a tour with Catie Curtis. We don’t really have a following out here yet, so we’re building that up.
Ty: That was the first time we were out here and this is the second.

AE: You guys (Ty and Doris) were in a band together already. How did you meet Nate?
Doris: [Ty and I] met in the second grade when we were 8. So we’ve done all our schooling together. And we went to Sarah Lawrence College and that’s how we met Nate. We were a duo for a number of years, and it wasn’t as fun being a duo. He was a solo artist in Boston. So we just decided, well we started singing together and realized there was this great chemistry, there was this great blend. So we were just like "Ah screw the other stuff, let’s just be a trio."

AE: Do you all have formal training?
Nate: I don’t have formal training singing. I did study composition in college. But I have just sung since high school, but never formally trained.
Ty: We always sung in choirs in school. I started taking voice lessons about a year and half ago, but I stopped about a year ago so it was really just six months.
Doris: I studied classical a little bit while in college, but mostly it’s this kind of singing that I like to do.

AE: Who inspires you, what bands do you like right now?
Nate: There’s a trio out of Maryland called We’re About Nine, as in we are about nine years old, and we did a tour with them a couple years ago and I’m still really inspired by them. They sort of do similar things that we do musically, certainly with harmony. They do a lot of three part harmony. There aren’t that many people out there doing it. Certainly not as many as there are playing single guitar and singing solo. So they inspire us. Have you ever heard of Kris Delmhorst, she’s from the Boston area?
Ty: There’s so many different people.
Doris: Yeah, it’s like uh I don’t know, we don’t listen to anyone.
Ty: I think we just listen to too much to even address that question. We all have IPods and there’s 4,000 songs on each.
Nate: I’m definitely still inspired by the Indigo Girls. Even after having met them and spent time with them, musically what they do just really inspires me. As well as personally too.
Ty: Even more so after playing with them. I didn’t think that was possible, but they are even more inspiring after you get to talk with them.