Andy Cohen and Jack Radcliffe

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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, October 21, 2005

Andy Cohen has been playing one kind of old time music or another since he was barely big enough to hold a guitar. Having known, studied and traveled with some of the legendary early blues musicians, his understanding and mastery of country blues is unsurpassed. He is a scholar of the works of Rev. Gary Davis. Andy delivers a catalogue of music, wit and wisdom from a broad spectrum of traditional American culture; he's a walking folk festival.

'Ragtime' Jack Radcliffe has been performing since the late 1950s. He is a master of country blues and stride piano, and sings with belief, punch and clarity. As a composer he has contributed dozens of pieces to the ragtime reportoire, and has also written a number of topical songs in the country blues tradition.

These two veterans of the blues and jazz scenes combine their masterful playing and enormous repertoires with a penchant for silliness. Andy and Jack deliver an incredible performance of ragtime jazz and country blues accompanied by insults, jabs and bad jokes!

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