Yid Vicious

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Matt Miller


"Impressions"


May 2026



Landscapes – Oil on Canvas My inspiration as an artist comes from many places. I started painting when I was young with my mother, Charlotte Fung Miller, who is trained in classical Chinese Brush Painting. My style started with contemporary brush paintings of mountains, landscapes and nature. I was also always inspired by Western and European landscape artists, and my style became a mixture of Chinese brush painting and Western landscape art, transitioning from watercolor to acrylic and finally to oil. My current style is painting landscapes with oil on canvas, based on scenes from Wisconsin and around...
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Dottie and Josie Brand (Two Peas in a Pod)


"Summer Magic"


June 2026



We are self-taught artists who create work inspired by healing, nature, travel, and personal experiences. Growing up, art became a way for us to process emotions, express ourselves, and create spaces that felt meaningful and comforting. Our first “gallery” was our college apartment, which we transformed with our own artwork and nature-inspired design and the power of the feminine. Sharing our space and work with others encouraged us to continue creating and exploring art more seriously. Inspired by our Latin culture, color, emotion, and everyday moments, our work reflects themes of connection, growth,...
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Friday, February 10, 2006

Has it been ten years already?!?!

Ten years! That---s much longer than the life-span of a mayfly. Or any bug for that matter. Compared to how long a tortoise lives it---s not really very much. Of course, Yid Vicious is rarely compared to tortoises OR bugs.

No, Yid Vicious doesn---t need showy wings and mandibles or a fancy-schmancy tortoise-shell shell to make its presence known. Instead, Yid Vicious plays klezmer. All KINDS of klezmer:instrumental, vocal, slow, fast, loud, soft, traditional, less traditional. In short, Madison---s favorite klezmer gang plays with all the versatility and polish that only a band with ten, count 'em, TEN YEARS under its belt can muster.

In those ten years, or ---that decade--- as the historians like to say, Yid Vicious has recorded three CDs (the latest, The Seventh Schlemiel, is IN STORES NOW), won two Madison Area Music Awards (for Best World Music Artist), played parties and festivals across the heartland, and withstood the odd personnel change here and there. And they---re still intact and playing better than ever. You know what band can---t make those kind of claims? The Beatles, that---s who.

Yid Vicious formed through a series of serendipitous chance encounters back in 1995, and played its first concert on Madison---s coldest Groundhog Day - February 2, 1996. Since then, the band has returned to the scene of its inaugural ball each year, sometime in the vicinity of the 4th-most-famous February holiday, to ring in another year of klezmer mayhem. The anniversary party will find the seven-piece band augmented by its prodigious extended family, featuring the talents of alumni and special guests galore.

What---s more, because the traditional gift for a 10th anniversary is that most precious of metals - tin - Yid Vicious will give a limited-edition tin gift to the first 20 audience members. Each of those 20 attendees will receive a Yid Vicious 10th Anniversary MYSTERY FOODSTUFF, contained in an artfully decorated (and professionally manufactured) commemorative tin can.

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