The Full House Quintet - CD Release Party - $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, March 17, 2012

The Full House Quintet will perform live to celebrate the release of their new CD.

The group--three retired UW Music Faculty, a retired UW scientist, and a UW Doctoral Music graduate--rehearse weekly at Joan Wildman\'s house. They write their own music for their highly unusual instrumental combination: viola, two bassoons, keyboards, and bass. They improvise in various jazz styles and also in the classical idiom so that the result is an interesting combination of \'orphan folk musics\'.

The CD is a compilation of living room recordings throughout the past two years, some of which will be performed live at the show. Because of the goals of the group, however, new music is continually being written and rehearsed, so expect that approximately 40% of the Mother Fools performance material will be newer than the CD!

Dick Lottridge and Willy Walter play bassoons, Diedre Buckley plays viola, Joan Wildman plays synthesizer, and Doug Hill plays bass.

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