East Side Acoustic Ensemble Summer Showcase

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, July 19, 2019
8:00 pm

The East Side Acoustic Ensemble (ESAE, pronounced "easy") is a local pop-up orchestra featuring just under twenty seasoned East Side musicians who get together twice a year for an eight-week season, leading to a live show of tunes.

Every season show is different, and songs range from country duets to full-ensemble orchestrations of Wilco.

This summer, ESAE rounds up hits from its last several seasons, plus a few never-performed tunes, in this intimate listening-room show

Music