StoneFloat w/ Jamie Holesha

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, October 30, 2004

Into every vacuum a whorl will whirl and StoneFloat is proud to stake its claim as originators in the emerging new genre that is Rock and Fire Flowpoetry. The times we live in demand a vigorous response and Madison, WI based StoneFloat provides just that by playing soulful rock and roll songs connected with poetry that keeps the music flowing from one song into the next. The result is at times aggressive, at other times spacey and dreamy and always entertaining.

StoneFloat explodes genre by foggily blending sludge rock, dusty gritty guitars, driving bass and flowpoetry puddled over double clutched drum beats. This is all mixed in with a dose of twang and soul vocals, electrically and acoustically performed.

StoneFloat features Tate McLane on guitar and vocals (hailed by South Central Wisconsin\'s leading music newspaper as having a voice both raw and true), KC McCrum on lead guitar, Dave Brehmer on percussion, Andy LaValley on bass, and Madison Area Music Award Best Artist Finalist Adam Gregory Pergament adding the spoken word. All members of StoneFloat are entirely professional and dedicated to songcraft. Within the space of this moment a new moment is born.

Jamie Holesha is a Chicago based singer/songwriter currently playing in front of any audience that will let her. Her energetic live shows are pulled together by an engaging stage presence finely honed through years of theatre and broadcast radio. Musically, she has performed as a solo act for 7 years with 3 years of fronting and writing for her bands prior to that. Drawing her influence from artists like Janis Joplin, Ben Folds, Kristin Hersh, Etta James and Tom Jones and armed with a 12-string guitar, a belting voice and a twisted sense of humor, she strives to make her loyal audiences laugh, cry and sing along to her own brand of rock, blues and folk.