Amelia Royko w/ Oldmanoak

Art in the cafe...

John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Saturday, October 2, 2004

Amelia Royko says, \"I\'m a twinkly folk musician with a house-ridden rock \'n\' roll air guitar show.\"

What she means to say is, \"I write really good pop-rock tunes that manage to sound just a little bit \'country.\' I won a bunch of awards last year for my debut CD and people really like my shows.\"

So, come on down...

\"Oldmanoak\" (John Williams) is a solo acoustic folk artist from Waukesha, WI. His performances are a blend of his original music and an assortment of interesting and sometimes ironic cover material.

Oldmanoak\'s material consists of bitter melodies and a sense of humor which are held together by a foundation of folk, blues and soul. Because of his solid guitar playing and soaring vocals, Oldmanoak has been compared to artists such as Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley and Beck.

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