The Delta Jets w/ Spitzer Space Telescope - $6

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, January 9, 2009

Recreating that Delta Blues sound, The Delta Jets (from Green Bay) will get hold of you and pull you in. Dale Anderson plays an assortment of guitars and evokes that Muddy Waters thang with a mix of originals and old time blues standards. They'll be bringing their new harmonica player for this gig. This is no ordinary blues group, this is a blues exorcism.

Spitzer Space Telescope: For some of his songs, aspiring singer-songwriter Dan MacDonald (CFA---10) duct tapes a tambourine to his foot as an accompaniment on stage, but ---most of the time," he says, "it breaks ---cause I stomp the s--t out of it.---

MacDonald, otherwise known as Spitzer Space Telescope, is a one-man band of sorts --- guitarist, harmonica and tambourine player, and vocalist.

---There aren---t too many negatives about performing solo,--- says MacDonald, who studies painting at the College of Fine Arts. ---I simply can---t tap into the energy I could with a band. Everything is simplified. And my mistakes are completely exposed. I can---t hide them behind a wall of sound.---

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