Scarlett Butler

What happens when two hit country songwriters fall in love? Joni Delaurier & Troy Kokol have written with and for artists like Shane Yellowbird, Brett Kissel, Tenille Townes, The Higgins, Mike Plume and Australia's Hayley Jensen. Originally meeting at a songwriting event, the two fell deeply in love with their craft and one another. The pair wrote Yellowbird’s hit song “Pickup Truck”, which was listed as the #6 all-time song on Canadian country radio by Billboard and spent twelve weeks in the top 10, opening doors to collaborations with some of the best writers and artists on both sides of the border. Their chemistry on stage and off have earned them a spot as industry darlings. Forming a duo was a natural evolution from playing countless songwriter rounds where they would sing incredible harmonies on each other's songs, and the million times they were told “you should start a band”. During the pandemic as a gag with some radio friends, they wrote "Looking for a Lockdown with You", which went on to be recorded by Aaron Goodvin, Michelle Wright, Duane Steele & CBC Heartland's Amber Marshall and garnered a Top 50 on Canadian Billboard charts. But Scarlett Butler isn’t just the sum of their past success - it’s the start of something more intimate, more exposed, and all theirs. For fans of The Civil Wars, Wild Rivers, and Jason Isbell meets Kacey Musgraves, Scarlett Butler has been writing the soundtrack all along - and now, they’re performing it.