Join us in the Waller's Coffee Shop listening room for a night of acoustic, folk, and Americana with three of Atlanta & North GA's top singer/songwriters!
Shane Secor (https://www.instagram.com/shane_secor/)
Ethan Harrison Smith (https://ethansmithmusic.com/)
Pinewood (https://pinewoodband.com/)
Waller's Coffee Shop has an intimate stage that is a perfect setting for listening to original songs. The venue serves great coffee and espresso drinks as well as scones, brownies, cookies, and wraps. Beer and wine are served during all events.
Doors at 6:30 pm
Ticket Prices:
$15 at the door
$12 in advance (individual)
$10 in advance (groups of 2 or more)
About the Artists:
Shane Secor
Shane Secor is a singer-songwriter from the American south. He sings songs about his experiences growing up in rural Georgia’s farmland, and the music reflects that. Songs about drinking, living, loving, and traveling. Some of his greatest inspirations come from the old time music of that region such as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Steve Earle, Luke Gordon, Earl Scruggs, and Lester Flatts, etc. His musical style has best been described as a story-telling approach…every song has a tale and it’s all true. He has a sincere investment with each audience he plays to, and that is apparent through his lighthearted approach and ability to make an audience laugh. An honest and thought provoking experience is what you'll walk away with.
Ethan Harrison Smith
Ethan Harrison Smith is an American folk singer/songwriter and performing artist. Ethan sings emotional songs and uses acoustic guitar and harmonica as a backdrop to his self-reflective tunes. He sings songs about hope, heartbreak, and existence itself. In his teenage years, Ethan hoped to become a great bluegrass flatpicker, but after discovering modern folk artists such as Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, and Josh Ritter, his interests shifted to songwriting instead. Ethan has won several songwriting competitions in Atlanta-area music venues and has spent time gigging across the southeastern United States. He has also performed his folk music around the world in countries such as Malaysia, Hungary, and Poland.
Pinewood
Sam Kempe knows persistence. The Atlanta-based songwriter has had a career of ups and downs, like most folks, but finds fuel in the process. With each success and failure come emotions, some new, some common, followed by mental notes. The celebration nor the despair should last too long, for there is more work to be done. Pinewood is the passion project of Kempe, one that has fluid definition and and serves as an outlet. The musician was born and raised on the sweet sounds of folk and bluegrass music, spent his teens playing electric guitars through loud amps in indie-rock bands, and settled down in his 20s into the world of folk music. Pinewood was formally launched in 2020 with the release of singles, In Our Residency and Rose Gold. Kempe's plans of hitting the road hard in 2020 to perform his new songs and promote future releases were brought to a halt by the Covid-19 pandemic, and he spent his time in his home studio creating 2 more EPs to release that same year, All Things with Symmetry and Carolina Daydream. While Pinewood's recorded sound features spacey ambience, percussion, banjo, string and synth elements, he keeps his live performance organic to the songwriting process. Songs are performed solo on acoustic guitar, the way they are written, and Kempe relies on the natural dynamics of the songs to portray the builds and releases in the way that the additional elements do on his records. The songwriter uses these tools and his lyrics to take the listener along through the story, to feel what he felt, see what he saw, and find resolve in life's mystery.