Amy Speace

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. It was midway through a European tour in 2017 that Speace began to question the existence of "the dream." She'd been chasing it for 20 years, running herself ragged, trading the stable comforts of home for a blur of shows, hotel rooms, and car windows. Was the dream just a lie? A fabrication meant to keep the creators creating? An empty promise that something, anything, was waiting for her at the end of the long road?

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