Amelia White w/ Amelia Royko

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, May 20, 2005

Nashville Rootsy Pop Songstress, Amelia White, sings her moody cinematic tales with a sweet and gritty drawl. Amelia---s New EP Candy Heart (Distributed Nationally by Burnside Distribution company) has garnered praise for its ---Ebullient choruses, literate verses ravaged guitars and level of composition and craftsmanship that brings to mind Lucinda Williams, Tom Petty, and Ryan Adams--- (Boston Globe)

Amelia has been a road dog in 2004 and 2005 touring hard and heavy, while in L.A. she has placed a song off Candy Heart on a WB TV show Summerland, and in Nashville, she continues to have co written songs placed on hold with major country stars.

Amelia Royko is sparkly sparkly horsey music with an acoustic guitar and singing.

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