As booking agent and promoter for Geno's Rock Club, it was her job to find the best local and national bands and let the crowds really enjoy the show.
As Cruella, lead singer in the metal band By Blood Alone, she fed off the crowds, leaving them a delighted and devastated wreck.
So the packed house at Geno's last Wednesday should have been nothing new, except this time, the crowd was behind her.
"I'm not a saint or anything," she said. "But I try to do my part, as far as doing what I know how to do, which is support the creative community, be a part of it and in some way keep it alive."
In July the 37-year-old artist was diagnosed with breast cancer.
For two straight nights last week crowds came out to Geno's to show their love, see bands like Man-Witch, Guttersnipe and Hiss & Chambers, and help raise money for Amann's medical bills.
This is not the first time Portland's music community has rallied around a member of its family. In the last several months benefits have been held to help out other artists and musicians in similar predicaments. It would be one thing to have to face breast cancer at any age, but like a number of other people in her generation, Amann does not have health insurance.
"I really feel like people are trying to take care of their own," she said.
Though she has a history of cancer in her family, no one has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she said.
As an artist, Amann and her husband make their living through their work, but she also relies on jobs like waiting tables to make money.
That type of plan usually does not involve a robust benefits package, she said.
That means trying your best to stay healthy and rely on free clinics and community medical programs.
But this presents something different entirely; her prescriptions alone will be several hundred dollars a month, she said.
She has taken advantage of Mercy Hospital's free care system and is applying for Maine Care as well as financial assistance at Maine Medical Center.
It can be a complicated and costly network to navigate.
After looking into private insurance, she estimates premiums for her and her husband would cost between $350 - $800 a month.
All of this wouldn't be so bad, if not for the fact that she won't be able to work for months.
Whether because of the cost, job choices or indifference to the health-care system, people in their 20s and 30s are becoming more likely to be among the uninsured in the U.S.
According to a study released earlier this year from the Maine Health Access Foundation, young adults make up the largest group of uninsured people in the state.
Young people age 19 to 34 made up only 22 percent of the non- elderly population in the state from 2004-2005, but they were 37 percent of the state's uninsured.
The report estimates that more than 27,000 low-income young adults are uninsured.
Erica Ziller, a health-care researcher at Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine, said a number of factors contribute to why young people are uninsured.
Some transition out of their parents' health insurance during college, while others find work in professions that don't offer benefits, she said. Though private insurance is an option, it's often too expensive for someone waiting tables or tending bar, she said.
Ziller cited the "young immortal" excuse -- the belief that they won't get sick or injured -- for why people in their 20s and 30s don't have health insurance.
But Ziller said recent surveys have shown that when young people are offered health insurance through their work, they are just as likely to use it as older workers.
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