The Redbirds

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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Friday, January 20, 2006

The Redbirds are a Wisconsin based duet consisting of fiddler Paul Kienitz and multi instrumentalist, John Fabke. The two are members of the popular regional bluegrass outfit, the Nob Hill Boys. Paul and John explore the byroads of American roots music with excurisions into the traditions of bluegrass, blues and old time tunes.

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