Blood & Dust w/ Blair Clark and Leah Brooke

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 2, 2016
8:00 pm

Blair Clark will preform songs from his upcoming EP Ring A Bell and others from his broken heart and broken head with Leah Brooke. These two have played together with the Sills and Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet. Blair Clark's music is dark blue noir. He is a loud crooner, a late bloomer, oddish at best. He has promised to lite the place up or burn it down which ever your night desires. Leah Brooke will make a feeble attempt to stay out of Blairs way, which will be impossible because of her strong presence and amazing voice.

With a voice that's one part whiskey and two parts honey, Blood & Dust blurs the lines between folk, blues, and soul. Born the son of a farmer and hailing from Southern Oklahoma, this ex-Baptist preacher takes every raw emotion you know and channels it into the strings of his guitar. Coming onto the San Francisco Bay Area Music Scene in early 2012, Blood & Dust is most recognizable for gritty melodies and guitar playing. There is music you listen to and music you feel in your bones. Blood & Dust is not just for your listening pleasure.

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