Mike Vial and Amy Soucy – September 19, 2026

Mike Vial not only believes life is stranger than fiction; he’s lived it. After 20+ years of teaching and playing music, writing songs and performing concerts, he has accumulated more stories than he can tell. The most important story Vial wants to share tends to be about his kids. “I’ve finally written a song for my son,” Vial adds. “I was worried I’d never be able to find the write song!” For those who know Vial’s music, they might recall his 2016 release A World That’s Bigger, the title song being about his daughter and life in Ann Arbor. Vial took a hiatus from live performing, like everyone, during the pandemic. He found a way to supplement his lost income with eBay, which now he jokes has become his record label. The summer of 2025 provided Vial a chance to test the road out again. Plus, he had a little success writing again. He has two new records to finish, including the Profiles of Courage record he has been procrastinating for years and a poetry book almost done. “Parenting and writing do not go hand in hand for me,” Vial admits. “I used to be able to write all night, and now I’m learning what Jill Jack once recommended at a songwriting workshop, ‘Write in spurts, when the baby naps!” Born in small town New Hampshire and raised in the wintery suburbs of Detroit, New York chanteuse Amy Soucy (pronounced SOO-see) grew up in a musical family (a sax-playing father and brothers who played tuba, guitar, and bass). She began singing and performing at an early age in choirs and youth theater and became one of the first graduates of Michigan’s only magnet high school for the performing arts. She went on to receive her Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Theater Performance, and hightailed it to New York City shortly thereafter, where she continued to multi-task as an actor/singer/dancer on tour, in regional theaters, and in the dark and dusty theaters of New York.   Though the lure of the footlights was fun, she couldn’t shake the recurring vision of herself singing solo, guitar in hand. Prompted by personal stories and a gift for melody and imagery, in 2001 she heeded the whispers of her heart and began writing original songs; then workshopping and performing them. In 2008 Amy formed a partnership with Catskills’ singer/songwriter James Krueger, and their musical travels took them from house concerts to listening rooms, to public radio across the Northeast. Gifted with a versatile, powerful and fluid voice, Amy has performed, recorded, written and harmonized with a wide variety of musical groups artists, including powerhouse singer/songwriters Penny Nichols and Sloan Wainwright; NYC’s favorite Japanese gypsy-folk band, Kagero; Comedy Central artist Stephen Lynch; and many more. She recently moved to Beacon, NY, after 20 years in New York City’s creative cauldron.