Tanner Carlson

Tanner Carlson plays the Carousel Lounge on Saturday, September 26, at 4 PM. He's an acoustic and pop singer-songwriter, and this is a solo set: just him, his acoustic guitar, and a loop pedal. If you've never seen a loop pedal in action, it's a small device that records a phrase he plays in real time and then plays it back on a loop, letting him layer melodies and rhythms over each other until he's essentially backing himself up. It's a way of building a full sound on a single stage without a band.

Carlson is 25, raised in the South and hailing from Austin, and he's been releasing music for about eight years now. He's put over half a million streams behind those recordings. He first broke into the live scene in Nashville, and since then he's built a presence online, playing more than 200 shows at venues like Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and the Cactus Cafe. These days he lives in New York, so this is a homecoming show back in his own city.

The set is built around that acoustic guitar and loop pedal, and the bill is just him. Admission is free, and the show starts at 4 PM on Saturday, September 26, at the Carousel Lounge, 1110 E 52nd St, Austin, TX 78723.