The Pow!ers/Pendur/Karetnick Trio - $7

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, December 20, 2008

On the last day of autumn, multi-faceted percussionist Ben Karetnick joins
infamous Madison saxophonist JoAnne Pow!ers and bassist Jennifer Pendur to
ring in the longest night of the year with a program of high energy
collective improvisations. After years of collaboration, Pendur's
inscrutable bass and the dulcet yet harrowing tones of Pow!ers form an
intricate sonic language of whispers, growls and screams. Karetnick, who
has worked with many of the East Coast's most notable improvisors,
punctuates the conversation with a startling array of textures and rhythms
from around the globe. The incalcitrant fire of these formidable
improvisors provides the energy for a final, stubborn challenge to the
encroaching winter.

The Pow!ers/Pendur/Karetnick Trio:
JoAnne Pow!ers - saxophones
Jennifer Pendur - bass
Ben Karetnick - drums

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