Amy Speace at First Presbyterian Church
704 Whitney Ave., New Haven (Corner of Whitney and Huntington)
After teaching herself to play guitar, Speace began setting her poetry to music, and quickly found songwriting to be the most creatively fulfilling thing she’d ever done. She soon began performing as half of the female duo Edith O.
Speace made her solo debut with the 2002 release Fable, recorded with $5000 donated by fans and released on her own Twangirl label. Giving up her hard-won acting career to become a full-time musician, she hopped into her car and hit the road, booking herself into every club, café and college that would have her.
Speace’s latest album, The Killer In Me, marks a quantum creative leap from the artist’s 2006 breakthrough effort Songs For Bright Street. The Killer In Me finds the New York-based singer/songwriter forging into deeper, darker lyrical and musical terrain. “This is the record that I needed to make,” Speace states, “You write the things that you’re afraid to say out loud.”
