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The Sea The Sea and Amy Speace

Where

The Outer Space
296 Treadwill St.
Hamden, CT 

Upcoming

7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2013

Performing

Amy Speace,  The Sea The Sea

Categories

Concerts,  Folk | Americana

Show Details Tickets at Door Cover: TBA Advance: TBA Music Starts: TBA Artist Descriptions The Sea The Sea weave their many voices into one. Since the Fall of 2011, Chuck e. Costa and Mira Stanley have been touring the country, making new friends and evolving their sound. Now a playful mix of old and new, acoustic and electric, raw and graceful, TSTS has created an inspired trove of harmony-rich, lyric driven songs. Dynamic and sincere, simple and true, their live shows will leave you stirring. LISTENAmy Speace has been quietly but steadily making waves in the Americana/folk world for a few years now, and in the journey, gaining support from the likes of Judy Collins, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark and other icons in the songwriting community. A self-described ‘late bloomer’ to songwriting, Speace landed in New York City after college to pursue a life in theater. She studied acting at The National Shakespeare Conservatory, toured the US with the National Shakespeare Company, started her own theater company to direct and produce the plays she had written, and in the midst of her early 20’s, picked up a pawn shop guitar, wrote her first songs, and found herself with steady gigs at such storied venues as The Bitter End and The Living Room.After releasing her first set of songs independently (Fable, 2002), Speace’s luck changed when a chance encounter with Judy Collins’s manager changed her life. Judy Collins signed Amy to her own Wildflower Records label in 2006, releasing Songs for Bright Street to critical acclaim. That record included a duet with The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and spent months at the top of the Folk and Americana Roots charts. The Killer In Me followed in 2009, with a rare duo appearance by Ian “Mott the Hoople” Hunter, who brought Amy to the UK for his 2009 Acoustic Tour. USA Today called Amy “a rising star”, NPR named the title track from Killer “Song of the Day”, writing: “her velvety, achy voice recalls an early Lucinda Williams.” In 2010, John Platt of NYC’s premiere AAA radio station WFUV named Amy’s song “The Weight of the World” #4 in his list of the “Best Folk Songs of the Decade,” a song that Judy Collins herself would record and call “one of the best political folk songs I’ve ever heard”. Appearances at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, the Philadelphia Folks Festival and Mountain Stage and shows supporting Nanci Griffith and Guy Clark followed.In 2009, Amy shifted landscapes, moved south to Nashville, beginning the writing of her latest album Land Like A Bird (Thirty Tigers, 2011). Produced by Neilson Hubbard, the record features guest vocals by Kim Richey and is already receiving the best reviews of Amy’s career. Bird will have its UK release in July 2012, when Amy will be touring with Alejandro Escovedo. LISTEN $15
 
 

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