{{short description|American folk singer-songwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{notability|Music|date=March 2019}} '''Beth Amsel''' is an American folk singer-songwriter. She grew up on Long Island<ref name="Catlin">{{cite news |last1=Catlin |first1=Roger |title=Rock Performer Stands Out In Annual Tribute To Folk |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/177012749/?terms=%22Beth%2BAmsel%22 |accessdate=March 3, 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=May 3, 1998 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=B7}}</ref> and moved to Colorado<ref name="Catlin"/> at the age of thirteen. In 1997, she moved to the East Coast and joined the New England folk scene. In 1998, a reviewer described her as having a "voice that seemed destined for something big .... a pure voice that flitted easily from Joni Mitchell soprano to duskier Dar Williams."<ref name="Catlin"/> Another reviewer in 2004 wrote, "Beth Amsel possesses one of the genre's finest voices. She's also a top-notch songwriter".<ref name="Alesia">{{cite news |last1=Alesia |first1=Tom |title=Clubs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/406711031/?terms=%22Beth%2BAmsel%22 |accessdate=March 3, 2019 |work=Wisconsin State Journal – The Capital Times |date=September 9, 2004 |location=Madison, Wisconsin |page=19}}</ref> She has performed with The Weepies, Jess Klein, Erin McKeown and Rose Polenzani as Voices on the Verge.
Amsel moved to San Francisco in 2013, where she lives with her husband.
==Discography== * ''A Thousand Miles'' (1997) * ''Live in Philadelphia'' (Voices on the Verge) (2001) * ''Kindling'' (2002) * ''The Reverie'' (2005)<ref name="ReveriePS">{{cite journal |title=Beth Amsel – The Reverie |journal=Performing Songwriter |date=June 2006 |volume=13 |issue=94 |page=43 |url=http://search.ebscohost.com.rp.nla.gov.au/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=21069477&site=ehost-live |accessdate=March 3, 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Heyman |first1=Victor K. |title=The Reverie |journal=Sing Out! |date=Summer 2006 |volume=50 |issue=2 |page=117 |issn=0037-5624 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Gutch">{{cite journal |last1=Gutch |first1=Frank O. Jr. |title=The Reverie – Beth Amsel |journal=The Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange |date=2006 |url=https://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p03647.htm |accessdate=March 3, 2019}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.bethamsel.com/ Official Website]
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