Bawbaric Yawps

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, December 9, 2005

One version or another of the alternative jazz group "The Barbaric Yawps" has been around town for the last 15 years. After several years hiatus, The Yawps return in their latest reincarnation as a trio.

Local veteran drummer & all-around creative musician Tom Hamer (Fuzzy Logic, Vortex) joins electric bassist Uncle Larry Hancock (WORT's late Fri. nite jazz programmer) and Tom Lachmund on saxes.

For this show, The Yawps will perform without a net, focussing on spontaneous interactive improvs without any written songs.

Speaking personally, we the Yawps, have been pleasantly surprised by what keeps burbling up out of this particular alchemical mixture, & we think that you, the listeners, may be too.

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