Reecy Pontiff

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, December 3, 2016
8:00 pm

Reecy Pontiff's southern-fried vaudeville sound began while performing smutty songs in New Orleans burlesque shows in 2009. Now this professional vagabond spends her summers as a Colorado Springs Jeep tour guide; the rest of the year she roams the globe with her 8-string ukulele. Reecy has lived in seven time zones on three continents.

Reecy presents candid, tragicomic topics from her unusual wayfaring existence in the form of toe-tapping tunes such as, “(I Liked You Better When) You Were on the Drugs.” Interspersed are gritty, heart-wrenching ballads like “Queen of the Birds on a Wire.” In her live shows she favors oddball covers like Brittany Spears' “Toxic” in a bluegrass style; sweet, folksy Sex Pistols songs; and traditionals like “The Cat Came Back.” Reecy's influences include Southern Culture on the Skids, Mae West, Amanda Palmer and Tom Waits.

Reecy, also known as the “Rocky Mountain Flirt,” will be touring with her third album “Mississippi Mountain Mud” in the winter of 2016/17. In true gypsy style this solo tour will span 12 states and three countries. Her first two albums are “The Fabulous Sideshow Apocalypse” (2009) and the “Rocky Mountain Flirt” EP (2015).

Reecy's music has been played on New Orleans' WWOZ, San Francisco's Radio Valencia, Colorado's KCMJ and Burning Man's BMIR radio. She's performed in over 30 burlesque shows, including Slow Burn Burlesque and Bella Blue's Dirty Dime Peep Show in New Orleans, Red Hots Burlesque in San Francisco and Johnny Porkpie's Burlesque in Times Square in New York City.