Amelia Royko w/ Oldmanoak

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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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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