Jesse Harris w/ Swati - $10

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, September 8, 2007

Jesse Harris first came into the public's eye as a guitarist and songwriter on Norah Jones' 2002 Grammy-winning album Come Away with Me, but his musical career dates back well before his collaborations with Miss Jones. A native New Yorker, Harris grew up studying classical piano and teaching himself guitar, focusing on the songwriting end first, with the actual musicianship coming second.

Swati is a disarming lyricist with a lack of pretension, and a fiery guitarist that can drop jaws. Her relentless touring schedule gears up again for an extensive North American tour in November to support her debut Bluhammock release, Small Gods.

Guitar Player celebrates her "nasty blasts of wildly distorted, low octave-enhanced metallic mayhem" and the Boston Globe observes, "Acoustic guitars must fear Swati..banging out riffs like a punk flamenco player."