Heralded by Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine, Amy Speace is one of contemporary folk and Americana music’s leading voices of the new generation. Lauded by mentors Judy Collins, Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, as well as the songwriting community in Nashville, her songs have been recorded by Judy Collins, Red Molly, Sid Selvidge among others. After 20 years of touring, she has played concerts all across the US and Europe and has graced stages from Glastonbury Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival in the UK to Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and Mountain Stage.

She began her career in the iconic folk venues of New York City, where she was discovered by Judy Collins and signed to her Wildflower Records label. Relocating to Nashville in 2009, she quickly became embraced by the songwriting community, with regular shows at The Bluebird Café as well as her international touring. In 2020, her song Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne was named International Song of the Year by the Americana Music Association UK. Her 2021 release, There Used To Be Horses Here, received widespread critical acclaim from Rolling Stone to Billboard. Performing Songwriter gave it 5 out of 5 stars and named it as the #4 release of 2021. Her latest album, Tucson (Windbone/Proper Records) landed #1 on the Folk Radio Charts in April, 2022 and was widely lauded as one of Speace’s finest work. This year, her 2013 record, How To Sleep In A Stormy Boat, which was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered was named to the Top 10 Albums of the century.

A “writer’s writer,” she is a published poet, with pieces appearing in 2022’s Spring edition of 2River Review and Euophia. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Salon.com, American Songwriter, No Depression.

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A New England native, Erin Ash Sullivan’s music reflects a deep sense of place, and her lyrics — sometimes heartfelt, sometimes funny — are always authentic and drawn from her lived experience, harnessing the power of story to build connection. Victor Infante of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette describes her music as “delicate and evocative” with songs full of “nuance and emotional resonance.” Erin’s 2021 debut solo album, We Can Hear Each Other, reached #10 on the FAI DJ Chart, and in 2023, she was a “Most Wanted” selection from the Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. An award-winning songwriter, she has been the winner of the Rose Garden Coffeehouse Performing Songwriter Competition, recipient of the Mark Erelli Judge’s Choice Award in the New England Songwriting Competition, and a finalist in the Great American Song Contest and the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest.

Amy Speace’s  Website | Video
Erin Ash Sullivan’s  Website | Video

A few words from Amy:

• Amy Speace once again demonstrates why she’s one of the greatest artists in Americana today Mike Davies, Folk Radio UK
• What Amy Speace says — what she sings — she says with a confluence of poetry and honesty, of emotional specificity.” The New York Times
• Amy Speace is on a roll. Each new release has brought an expansion of her voice and her art, and she has reached the level of absolute mastery. Folk music doesn’t get any better than this. Mary Gauthier
• Her velvety, achy voice recalls an early Lucinda Williams. NPR
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• Erin Ash Sullivan
• A special talent that reminds me of early Dar Williams John Platt, WFUV
• Melodic, fresh, and easygoing, with storytelling prowess on full display . . . recalling the likes of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Unxigned

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