Michael Lee Ammons & The Water Street Hotshots

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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Saturday, August 11, 2007

The Water Street Hot Shots are a hard working traditional blues string band. Their recording "This Will Bring You Back" is now available on PERKATONE REDCORDS. Drawing from acoustic musical styles of the 1920's and 30's, The Hot Shots' repertoire includes old-time blues, ragtime, novelty, and "hokum" party music. Listeners can expect to hear slide-guitar in the style of masters like Son House and Tampa Red, jug band tunes, and string band arrangements of ragtime pieces.

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