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Emma Wallace

I am playing at Florida Music Festival on May 16!

About Me

I began writing my own music April of 2002 and began performing my own compositions outside the safety of my own home in June and have toured around central Florida monthly since then. In the middle of my central Florida tour, I visited California and back after cutting an EP with producer/sound engineer Dan Garcia (some of the results of which you can listen to on this page!). After playing everywhere from beachside coffee shops to the Florida Music Festival (where a reviewer described my gig as one of the "most impressive acts of the night"), I decided to try my hand at the West Coast and moved to Los Angeles in September 2004. I have since then moved back to Florida and gotten gigs at several cafes and look forward to having even more fun playing at different venues.
I’ve had the wonderful experience to play all around central Florida including:
Florida Music Festival
Central Florida Veg Fest
Central Florida Fair
Virgin Megastore
Baldwin Park Steakhouse
Infusion Tea
Dandelion Communitea
Tatame
Drunken Monkey
Austin’s Coffee
Natura Coffee and Tea
Orlando Public Library

Read a review of my CD from The Orlando Weekly:
Orlando acoustic-jazz vocalist Emma Wallace has quite a sucker punch. She is equally perceptive and enthralling in the multiple genres she skips across on her album, A Reason to Stay Up All Night (available on iTunes). A Reason features the socially conscious redhead as a Tin Pan Alley plugger, a vaudevillian tease and a smoky Blue Note seductress. Wallace uses her exceptional storytelling ability as the setup for heart-wrenching couplets designed to disarm. For every amorous metaphor (“You’re like the first time Bonnie and Clyde held up a bank”), there lies a buried, yet personally revealing sting (“I’m ready to be the girl you take for granted”). Wallace extols the benefits of loving a hippie (“Baby, you’re more enlightened than most men can attain”) on “Part of Your Mudra,” but gently emasculates the same partner frightfully efficiently (“But in bed I don’t want a Buddha, I want a Genghis Khan”). From the lyrics to her joyfully unpredictable chord changes, Wallace keeps you on your toes, which seems to be just where she wants you – all the better to “saute your heart.”


Buy my new CD, "A Reason To Stay Up All Night" from my website or CDBaby.
Or...
Download songs from my album at Digstation.
Or...
Download songs from iTunes
And
Check out my blog.
And
Read lyrics from my lyrics blog.
Even
Buy delightful fan stuff from Cafe Press.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/22/2005
Band Website: iamemma.com
Band Members:
Influences: Sting: Thelonious Monk: Ella Fitzgerald: Harry Connick, Jr.: George Gershwin: Cole Porter: U2: Simon and Garfunkel: Enya: Debussy (just for fun) :
Sounds Like: Norah Jones, Randy Newman, Sting, Madeline Peyroux
Record Label: Submit press inquiries to [email protected]
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Im at the Florida Music Festival! And at Virgin Megastore!

Hello everyone! Hope everyone's May has gotten off to a wonderful start!BIG NEWS- I have the fabulous opportunity to perform at the Florida Music Festival on May 16 at 10:30 p.m. at the CityArts Fact...
Posted by Emma Wallace on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:22:00 PST

Support for My Argument

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TjHiG9xWWc I have a very talented fan who has created several fan videos on YouTube! I'm featuring her first video on this entry: a delightful homage to Fred...
Posted by Emma Wallace on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST

Interview!

I’ve been interviewed by the stellar online magazine- Unsigned, the Magazine. Very exciting! To read it, click http://unsignedthemagazine.com/content/artists/0308/emmawall ace/index.html.
Posted by Emma Wallace on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:42:00 PST

March!

Welcome to the month of March! Oh so many exciting things happen in March, St. Patrick's Day, the first Day of Spring, Dr. Seuss's birthday, the list goes on and on. Be sure to check out my upcoming...
Posted by Emma Wallace on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST

Filling you in on February...

February, although quite possibly the shortest month of the year, is going to be a busy month in Emma-Music-ville!I have a show at Jazzy Dog Cafe on January 30 at 6 p.m. I know, by the way, that Janua...
Posted by Emma Wallace on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:56:00 PST

Happy New Year!

I haven't been blogging here because I have another blog on blogger (www.iamemmamusic.blogspot.com) but I thought, hey! Why not just blog here as well!? So here it is!I hope everyone's New Year was ...
Posted by Emma Wallace on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:20:00 PST