Brian Daly w/ Underground Aviator

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, June 21, 2008

Brian Daly writes and performs songs for voice and guitar. His songs are edgy, introspective, catchy, emotional. Playing solo offers Daly a chance to deliver the songs in their purest form, with a clear window into the heart of the matter. Whatever that may be. He is also the leader of Sunshine for the Blind, a three piece rock band, and a music producer based out DNA Studios in Madison, WI.

Dan Williamson has been writing and performing music since 2004. Under the name of Underground Aviator, Dan fuses acoustic alt-rock with electronica and hip-hop beats and is quickly becoming well known throughout the upper midwest. Live, Aviator mixes loops and beats with his guitar and voice to create an original and interesting sound. Aviator's first album "Sleepin On A Table In The Aboulia Nation" will be released early this year from his own label, Aboulia Nation Records.