Charlie Cheney w/ Color Me Once- $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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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Charlie Cheney is a rare collaborative songwriter, with songs included on a dozen songwriter compilations including multiple tracks on Jackson Browne and Pat MacDonald\'\'s Steel Bridge Songfest series, the February Album Month series, AWinterstune, Americana: Handmade & Homespun, the Holiday Music Motel\'s Dark Songs series, and others.

He tours and performs regularly as a solo performer and plays in Michigan & Wisconsin with his acoustic trio The Significant Otters.

Color Me Once is an acoustic/soul duo based in Madison, WI. Their unique and heartwarming sound both silences and illuminates. From their melodic guitar parts to their soulful lyrics, Kelsey Nelson and Johnice Miller complement each other almost perfectly.