amy plachta

Growing up in London, Ontario, Amy sang in choirs; studied piano, violin, and cello; and was composing classically-styled works by the time she entered high school. In her late teens she finally picked up a guitar and began playing with the pop-folk genre that would inform her more recent compositions.

After relocating to the east coast to earn a degree in history and religious studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, she began to dabble in fiction. Upon returning home to study Music Industry Arts at Fanshawe College, she expanded her writing experience by contributing album reviews and articles to her campus paper and program newsletter.

After graduation, Amy moved to Toronto, where she now works for the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency by day and -- a burgeoning workaholic -- continues with her music and writing by night.

The foundations of Amy’s writing career were laid at the FSU Interrobang, where she wrote weekly articles on music and pop-anthropology (all of which can be read here).

Currently Amy contributes periodic articles to the So’lano Music Group website, and is also working towards becoming a novelist.

Amy’s recordings have taken her from lo-fi bedroom experimentation, to a demo EP recorded at Daytown Studios, to Fanshawe College where she worked with friends and peers to record several songs, four of which are available through bandcamp.

Currently she is working in her home studio to write and record new material for an EP to be released in the early spring of 2012.

Early in 2011, Plachtical Applications (Pla//apps) launched. In its current form it is a music and literature publishing company which exclusively and entirely represents Amy’s catalogue, but she already has plans to broaden its scope as future endeavours take shape.

Email Amy at info@amyplachta.com, or receive regular updates on all her projects by joining the mailing list.