Songwriters in the Round at Floyd’s Coffee House and Wine Bar
Ft. Isabeau Waia’u Walker, Sam Pinkerton, Ache Mono, Ethan Fox Tucker, Rebecca McDade and Ken Gaines
Music at 7
Suggestion donation: $5-$10
All Ages
Rebecca McDade
Rebecca McDade has an almost uncanny ability to tug at the threads of reality, handling the mundane and the miraculous with equal love and care, and weaving together songs that make you feel seen. Each one arrives fresh, as if manifesting in real time with a delicate confidence. Her expert fingerpicking, virtuosic lyricism, and honeyed vocals instill listeners with that same confidence, as though artist and listener have found each other deep in a wild forest, far from the rest of the world and yet entirely at home.
INSTAGRAM: @rebeccamcdademusic
Sam Pinkerton
Sam is the co-founder of Portland Songwriters Guild (2022). She studied songwriting at Belmont University in Nashville and moved to Portland shortly after.
She plays guitar in the Live Wire house band and for other friends in PDX. Some of her fave artists right now include Pinegrove, Bella White, Kacey Musgraves, Djion, MkGee and Hannah Cohen.
INSTAGRAM: @sampinkerton_
Ethan Fox Tucker
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Fox Tucker blends soul, folk, and '70s pop into a warm and timeless sound. Tucker plays with the Live Wire Radio House band and always is working up new tunes in his studio, The Dream Basement.
INSTAGRAM: @ethanfoxtucker
Ken Gaines
Singer/songwriter, producer, teacher, and master of ceremonies Ken Gaines has been a staple in the music scene, not only in his former hometown of Houston, but also throughout Texas. He is the 2005 TMA Singer Songwriter of the Year and, for over 20 years produced and hosted the Thursday night, in the round series at Houston’s legendary Anderson Fair. He’s been featured numerous times at the Kerrville Festival as well as festivals and concert series across the country. In November of 2022 Ken moved to Oregon City, OR and now calls the Pacific NW his home territory.
WEBSITE: kengaines.com
Isabeau Waia’u Walker
Isabeau Waia’u-Walker, at heart, is a storyteller and songsmith who unites vulnerable transparency with hypnotic melodies and harmonies that will remain in your mind long after the music has stopped playing. She is a breathtaking embodiment of potent paradox; her sound dubbed “bright gloom”, yet another nod to the dualities her music carries and communicates song by song. Hailing from the Hawaiian islands with its deep indigenous heart and steeped in the beautiful bustling expressions of Portland and the Northwest, she lives and creates in the tensions of cultures, race, and language, and the product is, and always has been, a type of tender fortress in a world of harsh realities.Her ethereal voice brings the perfect compliment to the earthy weightiness and real life grappling happening in her lyrics. To know and witness Isabeau and her music is to witness a most beautiful faithfulness to people, process, and the art of real life loving. This comes blazing forth in her music, as she welcomes you with aloha into her soul and shares both the triumphs and piercing heartaches of her own life with stunning concision. Her commitment to producing honest, vulnerable, poetic, and resonant music has already produced her EP “Better Metric” and two full length albums, “Body” and “Heavyweight”, and her third and highly anticipated EP “Cloudhunter”, recorded at The Center for Sound, Light and Color, is due this coming summer. She has toured the PNW with her own band, solo touring all over the country and Mexico, as well as extensive touring as a member of the band Y La Bamba. She also had the honor of recording a live session of her “Heavyweight” album at KEXP in 2024. Isabeau’s music is mellifluous and mature and invites you to engage in your own story, your own truth- it has a contagious kind of honesty to it, that feels like a deep question and a profound answer all at the same time. She’s a taste and see deal, and once you listen, you’ll understand.
INSTAGRAM: @beaubeaubarina
Harrison Rapp
Harrison Rapp enjoys fabricating, fibbing, and making things up. He resides in Portland OR. Of course he does.
INSTAGRAM: @ache_mono