The Potter\'s Field w/ Ritt Deitz Trio - $7

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 5, 2013

\"The Potter\'s Field defies easy description -- Harmoniously haunting, deceptively simple, painting portraits of real life on the canvas of the listeners\' hearts and minds with sepia undertones of edgy eeriness, poignant lyrics and bright splashes of toe-tapping energy.\"

Rochelle Clark and John Natiw are The Potter\'s Field, a Midwest based Folk/Americana/Roots duo. Known for poetic, gritty lyrics, driving instrumental style (including acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica, typical and non-typical percussion elements and the occasional kazoo), close and powerful vocal harmonies and easy stage presence, The Potter\'s Field surprises with new songs and ideas that sound familiar yet nostalgic.

Ritt Deitz is a mainstay of the Madison folk-rock scene. Guitar/voc, hammered dulcimer/voc, bass, and guest backing singer.