Livestream--Amy Speace, Burwell, Paul Reisler
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Because We Have Music features Amy Speace, Burwell and Paul Reisler- An Evening of Song
Kid Pan Alley’s Because We Have Music free livestream series features Amy Speace, burwell, and hosts Paul Reisler and Cheryl Toth on Sunday, February 28th at 7pm (EST) for an evening of original songs.
Americana-UK Magazine said Amy Speace’s album, There Used to Be Horses Here, “is a remarkable display of songcraft, full of absorbing depth, lyrical beauty and breathtakingly gorgeous sorrow.”
Rolling Stone Magazine said the album was “Melancholy and gorgeous,” and it is also beautifully uplifting and deeply personal. What they said about her songs applies to all the music you are going to hear.
Speace’s love of language has carried her from her native Baltimore, to the iconic folk venues of New York City where she was discovered by Judy Collins and signed to her Wildflower Records label, and in 2009, to the diverse musical community in Nashville where she makes her home. She is also a published prose writer, with essays appearing in The New York Times, American Songwriter, and The Blue Rock Review. She has played festivals from Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival in England to the Philadelphia Folk Festival and Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and she has appeared on Mountain Stage 4 times.
Inspired by nostalgia, singer/songwriter Burwell is on a quest to unearth beauty through reflection. With music featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and American Songwriter, her music has been described as having "ballet grace with poetic devotion." To date, burwell has shared music as half of a folk duo and one-third of a pop trio; within both groups, she's written a number of songs that have sat on a shelf for a number of years. As she dusts off old songs in a single release series entitled "new songs from the past" this year, burwell is songwriting for her debut EP, "boxes," with plans to release it within the next year. By writing words that feel honest and personal, she hopes to find healing and pass it on to her listeners.
Paul Reisler has been making records, touring, and teaching songwriting ever since his band Trapezoid got a record deal at their first performance way back in 1975. He founded Kid Pan Alley in 1999 as a way to inspire children in the creative process. Since then, he’s been riding a tidal wave of close to 3,000 songs that he wrote with the kids as well as his own original songs, instrumentals and two musicals. He probably won’t run out of new songs to perform unless the pandemic lasts into the next millennium. He’ll be joined by vocalist Cheryl Toth.
