Amy Speace performs nakedly honest songs with a larger-than-life voice and detail-rich songwriting the digs into the collision of dreams and reality, and are full of characters making sense of their lives when something is lost and then found. She has spent two decades chronicling the high marks, heartbreaks, and hard roads of a life logged on the road for an international audience that’s included the Glastonbury Festival, NPR’s Mountain Stage, and a yearly average of 150 shows across the U.S. and around the globe.
Discovered and mentored by folk-pop icon Judy Collins during the early 2000s, Speace left her career as a classically-trained Shakespearean actress and, instead, kicked off a string of acclaimed albums. She received further acclaim as a member of Applewood Road, a harmony-heavy trio whose self-titled album became a critical success in the UK, earning a five-star review from The London Sunday Times.
Speace was an early champion of Americana, mixing the best parts of American roots music, gospel, alt-country, folk, and classic pop into her own a clear-eyed, energized songwriting. According to none other than Mary Gauthier, “Folk music doesn’t get any better than this.” We agree.