Tolan Shaw is an award-winning recording artist, a prolific songwriter, and an avid traveler. Based in Nashville but originally from southern California, Shaw is an acoustic troubadour with songs that are catchy and soulful, bluesy and melodic, poppy and sincere. He is highly inspired by his yearn to travel and to learn about the world and its people.

In the last year, Shaw won "Best Singer-Songwriter" at the 2017 San Diego Music Awards, became a Taylor Guitars official artist, wrote music with notable hit writers including Jason Mraz, and took a 4 month journey to Southeast Asia (endorsed by Taylor and GoPro) to write music and create a travel-music video series called “Wandersong.” Having shared the stage with international acts such as Gavin DeGraw, Nate Ruess (fun), and the BoDeans, toured nationally and internationally, and achieved success writing and licensing songs with various TV networks and music libraries. Currently working with manager John Dehais, who helped steer the careers of Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, and Alanis Morissette among many others, Shaw is well positioned to have a long and fruitful career.