Stephanie Rearick w/ Skye Carrasco - $6

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, January 23, 2010

Stephanie Rearick is well known around these parts for her piano based rock cabaret music shows. She creates beautiful and haunting music using piano, trumpet, voice and a Boss Loopstation.

Keyboard Magazine says, "Amanda Palmer gone psychedelic and retro -- one of the rawest, most original aesthetics we've heard in awhile."

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Skye Carrasco has played the violin since the wee age of 5. Childhood=violin practice every day, making paper snowflakes while reading green eggs and ham, & worshiping Alanis Morissette. Years later, when Skye was studying Sonata in D major Opus 94 bis for violin & piano by Prokofiev, she felt her relationship with music changing. She wanted to find a way to write original music that expanded her classical training & that also encompassed her love for singing, poetry & the rich culture of gypsy folk music. Skye has been writing & performing her own music ever since, with special inspiration from her first chamber-pop band, Skursula (violin, cello & accordion, 2006-2008). In 2008, Skye spent some time in Portland, Oregon. She found creative solitude with the Cascadian pine trees & old time music radio. Her time out west has fueled a new kind of solo music-making, a style born from Stumptown espresso, steady rain, & drinking red wine in woolen slippers. Once again based out of Iowa City, Skye calls on company of J.S. Bach, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Shostakovitch, & Violeta Parra to create a mingled duet that resonates between her violin-playing & vocals.