Amy Loftus

Amy Loftus is a Chicago-born singer/songwriter, now resident in Nashville after a period in Los Angeles. [cite web
url = http://www.amyloftus.com/about.html
title = About
work = Amy Loftus website
accessdate = 2006-12-06] Her first solo record "Straight to Amy" was produced by Will Kimbrough in Nashville and released in March 2005. [cite web
url = http://www.amyloftus.com/music.html
title = Music
work = Amy Loftus website
accessdate = 2006-12-06] The track "Nashville Doesn't Sleep Here Tonight" from that album was played on BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris' country show on January 19, 2006. [cite web
url = http://www.lkmusic.net/playlists/playlist.asp?progcode=c19012006
title = Country Show playlist, 19 January 2006
work = Bob Harris website
accessdate = 2006-12-06]

Amy got her start in music in Chicago with a local band called "Cartoon Gypsies". She was a member of The Second City Training Center. She lived in Los Angeles for a short time and appeared in an episode of HBO's "Tracey Takes On".

Amy Loftus was named "Best New Singer/Songwriter" by "Nashville Scene" magazine in their October 27, 2005 "Best of Nashville" edition, [cite web
url = http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Special_Issues/Best_of_Nashville/2005/10/27/Best_of_Nashville_Arts/index.shtml
title = Arts & Entertainment — Writers’ Choices
work = Nashville Scene magazine
date = 2005-10-27
accessdate = 2006-12-06] and she placed third in the "Folk/Singer-Songwriter" category in the International Songwriting Competition in 2006 for the song "Work to Do" written with Will Kimbrough. [cite web
url = http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners.htm
title = International Songwriting Competition - Winners
accessdate = 2006-12-06]

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* [http://www.cdbaby.com/amyloftus Amy Loftus] at CDBaby