Michael Freer w/ Christopher Pond - $6

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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, October 7, 2011

W. Michael Freer is a national touring acoustic bluesman using \'blues uke\', harmonica and rich baritone vocals to draw us into his music as we become \'one\' with his blues.

Christopher\'s music is modern folk with indie, experimental, and pop-rock undertones. His lyrics come from a place of introspection mostly, as well as angst, intrigue, sarcasm, frustration, love, infatuation, etc.

He started playing drums around age 12, then guitar at 15, piano soon after that, and now on to banjo and ukulele. He got an analog four-track recorder when he was 17 which changed his life forever. He has been writing songs, playing in bands, and recording albums ever since.

Pond was voted a -New and Notable- artist on indie-music.com and was nominated for the annual Top 25 list in 2010 and again in 2011. \"Angels out of Dust\" and \"Buried Alive\" (from \"Color Scheme\" 2009) both ranked on the Top 30 chart on indie-music.com by IAIRA in 2010. He currently finished a new record called The Book of Laments which was released July 2nd, 2011.

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