WSLR Presents: LOCALS ONLY! Emerald Butler + Heidi Kalua

5500 Saint Elmo Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37409

07 April, 2023

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The Woodshop Listening Room Presents: Emerald Butler + Heidi Kalua Friday, April 7th $10 Pre-Sale Tickets | $15 Day of Show Doors at 5pm | Music at 8pm *no cover until 7pm* EMERALD BUTLER (Country/Americana) VIDEO | LISTEN Since her rhythm guitar strumming grandfather suggested that the child start taking fiddle lessons, Emerald Butler has been fiddling on top of bars and tables ever since. Cultivated by the Chattanooga mountain music scene, Emerald began fiddling with local bands and pickers at the age of 12. However, it wasn’t until she saw the Johnny Cash biopic film “Walk The Line” that her passion for Classic Country, Rockabilly, and Americana music became clear. Emerald began writing her own Americana inspired originals at 15 years old, writing lyrics that paint pictures of nostalgia, independence, love, heartache, and individuality. In 2018, Emerald graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a bachelors in Music Business while also interning at Independent Roots music label Compass Records. After college, Emerald began gaining real life experience on the road with piano rockin’ Jason D. Williams and hit songwriter Roger Alan Wade. She has worked and performed with a plethora of Bluegrass and Country music artists including Rhonda Vincent, Bobby Osborne, Bob Kingsley, Becky Buller, Alison Brown, and many more. She has shared the stage with old and new legends including Larry Fleet, The Gatlin Brothers, T.G. Sheppard, and John Anderson. From Broadway to Beale, Emerald has performed at venues such as the Opry City Stage in NYC, Chattanooga’s Riverbend Festival, Tulsa’s Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, and Songbirds Guitar Museum. In March of 2020, right before the world shut down, Emerald released her first original single “Kansas”. She then released her first self-titled EP later that year. People have compared her music, style, and performance to artists like Brandi Carlisle, Rosanne Cash, Amanda Shires, and even Elvis Presley. HEIDI KALUA (Indie/Soul) VIDEO | LISTEN Born in California, raised in Tennessee and Las Vegas with Hawaiian blood — Heidi is a traveler and creator with a wide range of sound influences. Music is in her blood, from growing up hearing her Grandad’s Hawaiian band to finding her own genre-bending sound. She started with the ukulele as a kid, progressing to acoustic guitar and keyboard into the lead electric guitarist she is today. Heidi plays lead guitar in the blues and rock genre and solo sets including live looping and acoustic mixes. She keeps her musical repertoire very diverse and open, with R&B and soul as well as indie and alternative sounds. Her original music is written from a deep place and it shows in her delivery and tone. Heidi has taken a knee to the music, with a sacredness in her commitment. Reminded in every song and every stage of the grace in music, she finds the space to time-stamp memory and experiences — she puts her heart and soul in every line.