Amy Speace – Live Instore – Tuesday 3rd September

21st August 2019

Amy joins us all the way from Nashville, TN and will be performing an acoustic / unplugged session at our Frome shop on Tuesday 3rd September at 3pm.

She will be performing songs from her 7th album ‘Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne’ which will be available to purchase on the day, and widely available from 6th September.

Amy also played in the trio ‘Applewood Road’ with Emily Barker & Amber Rubarth, and has had

‘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.’

You can watch/listen to the title track from her forthcoming album here or at the bottom of the news piece.

Here’s some more about Amy:

A modern folksinger whose music nods to the genre’s 1970s glory days, Amy Speace has spent two decades chronicling the high marks, heartbreaks, and hard roads of a life logged on the road. She’s been a tireless traveler, chasing the dream from the coffeehouses of New York City to larger stages across the globe. Along the way, she’s built an international audience without the help of a major label, relying instead upon a touring schedule whose milestones include the Glastonbury Festival, NPR’s Mountain Stage, and a yearly average of 150 shows.

Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne finds Speace focusing on the other side of that so-called dream. The real side, filled with an ever-shifting balance of struggle and joy. Produced by longtime collaborator Neilson Hubbard and recorded during the final weeks of Speace’s pregnancy with her first son, Me And The Ghost Of Charlemagne captures Amy Speace at her most nakedly honest, with sparsely-decorated songs that double down on her larger-than-life voice and detail-rich songwriting. It’s an album about the colliding of dreams and reality, full of characters making sense of their lives when something is lost and then found. Really, it’s an album about the trials and triumphs of an artist’s journey — a journey that’s no longer focused upon the destination, but upon the actual trip itself.