Todd Cambio w/ Travis Koopman

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, April 23, 2005

Former Cashbox King, Durable Good, and Catfish Stephenson sideman, guitar maker and multi-instrumentalist, Todd Cambio, draws from a variety of sources for his material. Whether it's old 78 records, old codger bluesmen, fiddlers or songsters, Todd tries to soak up as much of the old traditions as possible and incorporate them into his repetoire. Expect to hear some old blues, rags, hillbilly, cowboy and work songs.

Raised on a healthy diet of old blues and country, Travis Koopman of the Cashbox Kings, has turned into an accomplished blues guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. In a rare solo, acoustic performance, Travis gets a chance to show the rest of us what he's really made of. Through his great guitar playing, powerful voice and haunting, Elvis like, vibrato, Koopman will share some of his original material, as well as some timeless blues classics.

Expect to hear some great duets from these former bandmates too.

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