Tiny Magnets w/ Page Foster - $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, October 15, 2011

Taking songs that rock in a full band context and stripping them down to all but their most vital rhythms and melodies, singer/songwriter/guitarist Brian Cremins and singer/noisemaker Allison Felus will show off the sensitive side of Chicago-based outfit Tiny Magnets. Playing sweet tunes with bite, smile, and heart, the duo is beloved by audiences just as much for their witty between-song banter as for their instantly memorable melodies, guitar wizardry, and sweet-and-salty vocals. Like the much-loved She & Him collaborations of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel, Felus and Cremins proudly make timeless music for grown-ups who haven-t lost their sense of mischief and wonder.

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From Minneapolis, currently stationed in Madison, Page Foster comes to this show presenting original and borrowed songs with an honest, captivating voice, accompanied by nylon-string acoustic guitar and by local upright bass extraordinaire Ben Willis.