Shawn Neary w/ Band of Lovers

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, July 18, 2015
8:00 pm

Shawn Neary is a son of the Middle West, and his songs are of the same stock. He has lived in Southwest Wisconsin for two years now, drinking it all in with gratitude. His music has been described as slow burning Americana by folks who write these kinds of phrases.

Band of Lovers
With a folk heart and full of harmonies, Band of Lovers are modern day troubadours. Hailing from upstate New York, Dave Strumfeld (guitar+vocals) and Sabina Beachdell (ukulele+vocals) formed the band in California in the fall of 2013 and recorded their debut full-length album, 'the Coast� near Woodstock, NY last summer.

On the road for almost two years now, their current national tour celebrates the album's February 2015 release.

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