Tani Diakite and his Blues Band

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, August 12, 2005

Tani is a singer and kamele ngoni player from Mali, West Africa. Since moving to Madison two years ago, he has been thrilling audiences with his soulful, hypnotic music.

For this show he will be joined by a number of friends from the Madison music scene.

Music