Will Branch

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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Friday, March 4, 2005

Graham Lindsey had to cancel and will reschedule at a later date. Check out Will Branch!!

Will Branch plays old-timey American music. Milwaukee's weekly the Shepherd Express called his duo with Dave Fox "some of the best porch music this city has to offer...their music suggests seasoned tastes from times and places far-removed from here." Branch's solo set is built around songs that have been around for decades, as well as his own originals. His new CD, "Press On," is receiving airplay on Wisconsin Public Radio - the recording features a who's-who of Milwaukee folk musicians. Branch has played around 2,000 shows in the past ten years. He's performed at festivals, in bars, on boats, in the street, in coffeehouses, for young and old and all ages in-between.

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