Green Note Presents: Amy Speace

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Green Note Presents: Amy Speace

Thursday 25 February 2027 · Doors 19:30

Water Rats, London

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Green Note Presents: Amy Speace is on Thursday 25 February 2027 at Water Rats, London, with doors at 19:30. Tickets start at £19.80, including the booking fee.

Acclaimed Nashville-based singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace returns to the UK with a new live show, The Cardinals: Songs, Stories & Poems, an intimate concert experience weaving together songs from her ten-album catalogue with poems and stories from her new collection, The Cardinals. At the heart of the show is a deceptively simple question: what is the difference between a song and a poem? Speace traces a path through a life shaped by words and music: from learning to read at the age of three with her grandmother, who taught her through road signs and later gave her a book of Robert Frost’s poetry; through her beginnings as a songwriter in New York City and her years in the theatre; to motherhood, the birth of her son and the death of her father. Rather than presenting poetry as a separate reading within a concert, Speace allows poems, stories and songs to flow into one another. The poems become connective tissue — opening doors into the songs, revealing where they came from and illuminating the experiences behind them — creating a seamless evening of music and storytelling. It is an approach that brings together the qualities that have long defined Speace’s songwritin...

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