Rise Up Singing Sing-along

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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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Join us for two solid hours of participatory musical fun. Bring your voice and/or a musical instrument of your choice so you can sing and play some of your old favorites and learn some new favorites.

We will be using \"Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook\" as our common reference. You don\'t need to have a copy to attend, but do bring one if you own or can borrow it; it includes words and chords to 1,200 songs, \"from ballads to Beatles, Bob Dylan to Broadway.\"

Journalist Studs Terkel, author of Working, describes \"Rise Up Singing\" as \"the best, most exhilerating and glorious history of the United States: a singing history. It is more than a lovely songbook -- it\'s a play-work-fight-freedom hymnal.\" We don\'t know what we\'ll be playing yet -- that\'s up to whoever shows up. All ages.

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