Melissa Greener w/ Corey Hart - $8

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, August 20, 2010

Aboard the rough and tumble gypsy life, Melissa Greener is making it happen as only a girl can who has lived in her van offering songs to those who find her. On the Nashville Broad and the San Francisco Haight, Greeners soul-stiring songs began conception. Now, on The Drag in Austin, her music swells to the territories beyond rootsy, folk-pop and into the realms of ultimate tangibility of the soul. Between her birth town of Detroit and new home of Austin, Texas, Greener has lived and performed throughout the world - the far East, the middle-east, Europe, and North America. While marked with experiences of her solo bicycle ride across Canada and various travels throughout Europe, its American cities like San Francisco and Nashville that make their way into her music in the form of American Folk and Country. Still, Greeners globally attuned voice expresses universal notions of love, departure, regret and hope. As she travels through memories she also travels through melodies. She moves beyond the basics of Americana to capture the essence of American pop with influences like contemporary songstresses Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams and Ani Difranco, as well as such greats as Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. Greeners style is one of poetic lyricism matched with honeyed melodies and down-to-earth delivery. Her debut CD, Fall From the Sky, captures the essence of this. Greeners songs are meant for movement, whether through the terrain of lost memories or across the American landscape. Her music translates both the longing and anticipation that comes with the prolonged travel she knows so well.

Corey Hart plays the music you wish you'd grown up to - an eclectic blend of folk, rock, and a little bit of soul. This Wisconsinite's earthy sound will tantalize your eardrums while his stage presence will captivate your eyes.

After only a few shows in his adopted hometown of Madison, WI this Berklee dropout found himself rising to the top of the local music scene. Hart recently earned the title of Madison's Songwriter of the Year.

Shortly after his award-winning performance, Corey spent some time recording at Smart Studios. His resulting new EP "Words Like Wildfire" is certain to bring national attention. Featuring stripped down production that emphasis substance over studio tricks "Words Like Wildfire" captures his awesome voice and amazing songwriting.

"Hart is out to make folk that's not about easy listening, that suggests the intensity of real life." - The Isthmus