Stephanie Rearick w/ Andy Ewen - $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, May 15, 2009

Stephanie Rearick is a pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and trumpeter. She regularly performs solo and often incorporates electronics into her show.

Rearick's style is pop-ish, classically-influenced music infused with cabaret.

"Imagine Tom Waits reincarnated as Debussy, playing Joni Mitchell versions of Edgar Allen Poe poems on a 1920s era piano, and you get an approximate sense of the influences singer/pianist Stephanie Rearick channels on the way to making her very unique, idiosyncratic art pop." -- Berkshire Eagle

"...she sounds like the love child of Tori Amos and Robyn Hitchcock." -- The Chicago Reader

Andy Ewen is a fixture on the Madison, WI. music scene. He has fronted the band Honor Among Thieves for twenty-five years and has performed and recorded with many other musicians as well. His solo work combines raw, passionate vocals and guitar playing with unique - often surreal imagery.He is also a visual artist and illustrator.

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