Merchants of Moonshine w/ Beau O\'Reilly and Ed Reardon - $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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Friday, June 29, 2012

Six musicians from all over America (TX, OH, NE, MO, MI, FL) who met in L.A. and constructed -their- version of a country band. They perform/write tunes in the spirit of country-s past greats while incorporating a sound that invites the modern listener.

Beau O\'Reilly and Ed Reardon: Blue ballads and spinning story songs from the Maestro Subgum and the Whole song bag as well the great songwriters Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Greg Brown and Michael Smith, with a few of our own new ones just to keep the pot boiling.

Music