Yid Vicious

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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, January 30, 2004

For seven or eight years now, Wisconsin klezmer juggernaut Yid Vicious has been serving the community by helping it cast aside its mid-winter doldrums...with KLEZMER! And this year will be no exception. Ergo, Yid Vicious will be performing on FRIDAY, JANUARY 30th (a date that may or may not actually be Groundhog Day; no one knows for sure) at 8:00 ish at MOTHER FOOLS place of coffee and performing. As per usual, this year\'s

MEGATACULAR SUPER FABULISTIC GROUNDHOG DAY KLEZMER BLOWOUT
will feature:

* klezmer music
* fun
* goodwill
* laughs
* more klezmer music
* maybe some minor prizes awarded to audience members under some pretext or other
* the gracious and welcome presence of former members of Yid Vicious, who now number
well into the hundreds.

THINK ABOUT IT! What chases away seasonal (or other) depression more quickly and effectively than healing, soul-stirring klezmer?

And what klezmer band has always been there for you, through the floods, the heartbreak, the audits and the cracked teacups? What, the Klezmatics? They could care less about you, with their jet-setting ways! The Klezmer Conservatory Band? Why, they\'re too busy pressing their velvet jackets and garters to care! No, the only klezmer band that\'s always looked out for you and every thing you hold dear is Yid Vicious. In your heart you know this to be true.

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