Medium Build at Newport Music Hall, Columbus, 16 November 2026

Medium Build plays Newport Music Hall in Columbus on 16 November 2026, 20:00. Medium Build is the stage name of Nicholas Carpenter, an American singer-songwriter who has released five studio albums and is signed to Slowplay / Island Records. Carpenter grew up in Georgia and played music in church.

He later moved from Atlanta to Nashville at 21 to study songwriting at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2016, he moved to Alaska and began performing as Medium Build, and his debut album Falling Apart came out that year. Carpenter first charted in 2023 with "Friend for Life", a collaboration with X Ambassadors.

He toured with Tyler Childers on the Mule Pull '24 Tour in 2024 and has also toured with Lewis Capaldi and FINNEAS. In 2024 he released the album Country and the Marietta EP, and he played Outside Lands, All Things Go and Austin City Limits that year.