The Falderals w/ Barry Osborne

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, April 19, 2019
8:00 pm

The Falderals is Rebecca and Andrew Andestic (and sometimes friends) a duo focused on writing and performing "new folk for old souls." Their album Radio was called "a true taste of American folk music" by The Superior Telegram.

They've been playing around the Twin Cities region for years now, at venues such as The Aster, The 331, Dunn Bros on Grand, The Amsterdam, Gingko Coffee, The 318, Ward 6, Contented Cow in Northfield, Fitger’s Brewhouse and Beaner's in Duluth.

https://thefalderals.wordpress.com

Barry Osborne, is a Denver based banjo player who just released his first CD. Barry sings and plays the banjo, and though he has recent experience performing old time music, his songs borrow just as heavily from the indie rock and post punk he grew up on. In college and in his 20s he played in rock bands. This is also when he first took up the banjo.

“I always tried to keep the banjo stuff separate from the rock stuff, it took me a long time to realize it’s all part of who I am, there’s no need to keep them apart.”

https://www.barryosbornemusic.com

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