Spaghetti Western String Co.

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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, July 22, 2005

SPAGHETTI WESTERN STRING CO., a band from Minneapolis, Minnesota combines a broad selection of acoustic instrumentation. The music of Spaghetti Western ranges from soft lullabies to the sound of an inharmonious circus. While bouncing between genres such as Classical, Folk, Bluegrass, Jazz and Mussette, the group retains its signature whimsical sound in the style of European street performers, and American Vaudeville. With this group, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, cello, and guitar step out of their scripted roles.

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