Grace George

Grace George is back at Mad Squirrel on Saturday 7 November, from 20:00 to 22:00. She's a solo artist who works with a loop pedal to build her own arrangements on the fly, layering vocals and guitar as she goes. The set mixes acoustic covers with her own original songs, and she leans on the pedal to fill the room with sound, so you get a full arrangement from a single performer.

It's a format that lets her build a song from the ground up in front of you, rather than playing along to a backing track. She's a regular at the Mad Squirrel taproom, and this is one of several dates she's got lined up there over the next few months: she's also booked for Friday 27 November and Thursday 24 December, so if you miss this one, there are a couple more chances to catch her in the same spot before the end of the year.

If you're not familiar with how a loop pedal works, it's basically a way of recording a phrase and playing it back on a loop, which she then builds on with more layers. That's how she manages to sound like more than one person on stage, and it's a good part of the draw if you like seeing how a song comes together in real time. The set runs from 20:00 to 22:00 at Mad Squirrel St Albans, 17 High St, St Albans, AL3 4EB.