Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "musicsmd@gmail.com" <musicsmd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.music
Subject: Amy Speace Invited To Play Official NERFA 2007 Showcase
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:40:47 -0000
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 56
Message-ID: <1192124447.208192.128210@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.174.177.63
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192124447 25202 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2007 17:40:47 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:40:47 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.174.177.63;
posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.music:3366
Wildflower Records artist Amy Speace has been invited by the Northeast
Regional Folk Alliance Conference (NERFA 2007) to perform their
official showcase on Friday, November 9th at 8:35 PM. The conference
is being held from November 9 - 11 at Kutsher's Resort and Conference
Center in Monticello, New York.
http://nerfa.org/
On her new album Songs for Bright Street, New York-based singer/
songwriter Amy Speace demonstrates why she's quickly become one of her
adopted hometown's most celebrated emerging artists. Possessing a
commanding voice, a distinctive melodic sensibility and an uncanny
knack for nailing complex emotions in song, Speace has attracted
accolades from media across the country.
[Amy] turned in a downright terrific 30-minute set. With her superb
stage presence and even better singing voice, Speace turned the crowd
on its ear and left us all wanting to hear more.
- Aimsel L. Ponti, Portland Tribune, Sept 18, 2007
[Speace] is a storyteller of the first order and a wordsmith par
excellence. She has a big, booking voice that can express dulcet
hushed tones, and she often sounds like Lucinda Williams but without
the lived-in feel...just give her time.
- Paul Maldonado, Albequeque Tribune, July 27, 2007
Like [Judy] Collins, [Amy] has a strong, clear voice, though more on
the gutsy side. Her songs...are delivered with big-voiced clarity.
- Josef Woodward, Santa Barbara News Press, September 24, 2007
>From the rustic rush of "Step Out of the Shade" to the bittersweet
lilt of "Water Landing" to the gentle acoustic intimacy of "Two,"
Songs for Bright Street's 12 original compositions (plus a slyly
countrified reading of the Blondie classic "Dreaming") showcase
Speace's unique gifts, offering catchy Americana with indelible hooks,
sharply observed lyrics and a gritty urban edge. Among those impressed
by her sassy songcraft is legendary folk-pop songstress Judy Collins,
who chose Songs for Bright Street to release on her new Wildflower
label.
http://www.amyspeace.com
http://www.myspace.com/amyspeace
Amy Speace has already won a loyal grass-roots fan base, thanks in
large part to live performances that merge warmth, humor and emotional
immediacy, and to a tireless touring schedule that's already taken her
across the United States. She's also won considerable critical
acclaim, with The Village Voice observing that Speace is "taking her
Americana away from twangy contemplation toward tangy confrontation"
and noting that she's "not another of those breathy would-be child
poets, but a real singing writer of songs." Time Out New York stated,
"Amy Speace plays sweet, twangy folk music with a clear voice and an
innocent vulnerability," while The Nashville Scene noted that she
"balances wry humor with open-hearted honesty." And renowned Nashville
critic Robert K. Oermann, writing in Music Row, dubbed her a "new
star."
|
|