Make Music Madison 2024!

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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Ruth Comfort


"The Metaphysical Affect"


January 2026



A diverse collection of mixed mediums, extensively encapsulating my heart and soul concerning the dreams of the human condition. ARTISAN RUTH COMFORT My given name is Ruth Comfort. Named after the amazing artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. I hail from a very long line of artisans and musicians. Even dating back to the great German philosopher...
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Friday, June 21, 2024
12 - 5

The show will be outside Mother Fool's by our graffiti wall, unless the weather is bad, in which case we'll be inside.

Bear In the Forest -- 12:30 - 1:45
The songs of Bear In The Forest (BITF) howl with spiritualism. It is built around folk music in the oldest, barest sense: joy and pain and a guitar coming together to produce sounds that resonate with ancestral memory. The BITF project is a slow burn. Bear, a.k.a. Alberto Kanost, has been writing and preforming songs under this moniker for about a decade, beginning when he was 15. Now at 26, he has had multiple iterations of bands and worked with two different producers to release two projects and a handful of singles. His collaborators and producers come and go, but it seems to always come back to just Bear and his guitar. Bear draws a lot of inspiration from the Indie-folk bloom of the 2000s/2010s; with acts like Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, Bon Iver, Ben Howard, and Tallest Man On Earth, being huge influences for his sound and songwriting. After Bear's recent graduation from UW-Madison in 2020, BITF released a second project available on most streaming platforms.

Big Larko -- 2:30 - 3:00
Hip-Hop. Big Larko is Madison’s best kept secret.

Ethry Fields -- 3:15 - 4:00
Ethry Fields is an Indie-Folk Singer-Songwriter. You can expect to hear an array of lilting stringed instruments, lyrics coated in heartfelt experience, and imagery from the natural world sprinkled on top of every original song in her repertoire. Forever a lover of intriguing stories, shimmery harmonies, and sweet lullabies.

Ephez -- 4:15 - 5:00
World, experimental blues alt. kraut rock. Performed and recorded in other bands, now solo performer with multiple instrumentation.