Amy Speace
Heralded by Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine and The New York Times and featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, Amy Speace is one of the leading voices of contemporary Folk and Americana songwriters. She was discovered 2005 by Judy Collins, who signed her to her record label and has recorded her songs. Amy is the 2020 winner of the AMA UK’s International Song of the Year. Her 2025 10th release, a spare, solo acoustic album recorded in three hours, “The Blue Rock Session,” recorded at Blue Rock Studio in Wimberley, TX during a writer’s retreat, is gaining the best critical raves of her career.
“The American Dream,” was released in 2024 and became the #1 record and the title track was named #1 song in the FAI Radio Charts for its first month out. A “writer’s writer,” Amy’s debut collection of poetry, The Cardinals, will be published by Red Hen Press in September 2026. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, American Songwriter, Salon.com, The Guardian, No Depression, Working Mother, 2 River View and Eunonia. In 2025, she published To The Performer: A Singer-Songwriter’s Handbook, based on her 20 years of teaching performance. In addition to her performance career, she teaches English and Writing at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN.
