Sheffield Streets

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Summary:
Amy Allison is a Long Island girl who used to live in Sheffield. She has
written a love song to the city: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVNlzqVhgg

Back in the early 1980s,  there used to be a pub in Sheffield called Woodstock Diner.  It was set out like an American diner, but of course the waitresses spoke with local accents--all except one: she not only looked straight out of a Woody Allen movie, but talked like it too.   It turned out that her name was Amy Allison, and she had left Long Island to live in Sheffield with her husband. ( I found that out when I met them both at an evening class.)  Much to my surprise, Amy loved living in Sheffield!   She adored:  Castle Market;  The Kashmir, on Spital Hill; The Leadmill; and, of course, the beautiful suburbs and their framing countryside.  Most of all. Amy loved the friendliness of Sheffielders, so much so that-- when her husband wanted to move back to work in New York--she did her best to persuade him to stay.   Her efforts were unsuccessful, and the couple returned to the US at the end of 1983.
 
A couple of months ago,  I looked her up on facebook; obviously, there were a lot of Amy Allisons to filter through; but I found her her eventually.  Amy was really pleased to hear from me, because she had just recorded a new CD; it is called Sheffield Streets. The title song is a love song to the city of Sheffield.  Here it is on youtube: