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Amy Speace is a folk singer, timeless and classic, and a bit out of her own era. “She has one of the richest
and loveliest voices in the genre and her songs are luxuriously smart,” writes
Craig Havighurst (host of Nashville’s “Music City Roots). “She’s profoundly
personal yet also a bit mythic.” Since her discovery in 2006 by folk-pop
icon Judy Collins, Speace has been heralded as one of the leading voices of the
new generation of American folk singers. Her song “The Weight of the World” was named
as the #4 Best Folk Song of the last decade by NYC’s premiere AAA radio
station, WFUV and was recorded by Judy Collins.
From her beginnings in New York City as a classically-trained actress
with The National Shakespeare Company to the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village where
she began playing her original songs to her move to East Nashville in 2009 to her
latest release, “That Kind Of Girl”, what ties all of her work together is a
palpable empathy for the small struggles of the human condition. Rock critic Dave Marsh, long a fan, wrote
"Amy Speace’s songs hang together like a short story collection, united by
a common vantage point and common predicaments…it’s a gift to hear a heart so
modest even when it’s wide open.” She
has released 5 critically acclaimed records, 2 on Collins’ own imprint
Wildflower Records, 2 on Thirty Tigers and her latest is a trio collaboration
called Applewood Road which was released last year on London’s Gearbox Records. 2016 saw Speace playing Glastonbury Music
Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival with Applewood Road after 5 star reviews
from The London Sunday Times writing
“a flawless set that has to be the most haunting release of the past
year.” Amy has been featured on NPR’s
“All Things Considered” and “Marketplace” and has appeared 4 times on “Mountain
Stage”, as well as many folk festivals around the world. She has also written articles for The New York Times, American Songwriter
Magazine, Pop Matters and other journals and magazines.