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Kat has performed lead roles in many musical Theater Shows including Velma Kelly in Chicago, and Sylvia in Two Gentleman of Verona. Kat fronted a performance art rock bank called Kat & The Rhythm Rats in Los Angeles, CA(venues include: opening for Chuck E. Weiss at the Central (now the Viper Room) on Sunset Blvd. and the famous Whiskey A Go Go), Kat fronted a blues band called Kat and the 7th Street Rats also in Los Angeles, CA (venues include: Mama Pajama’s and Molly Malones.) She completed two extra semesters as a Music Major at Los Angeles City College. Kat wrote a lot of the music for and performed in the Neo-Vaudeville Musical “Big Bad Bubba’s Bourbon Street Bar” in West Los Angeles, CA created by the late Peter Walker. She was Peter’s art apprentice for eight years. Kat owns her own company called Local Color Design which books specialty entertainment for events (Peter and she co-founded) Kat is among the top caricature artists for events in the city. She has enjoyed drawing many conventioneers from all over the world since 1996. Kat is now singing the jazz standards she always loved growing up and is very thankful for all the people, cultures, art and music that have inspired her life in the past, and inspire her life in the present. In New Orleans, Kat’s most recent performance highlights since Hurricane Katrina (where Kat’s house, like so many others, took 6 feet of water) include French Quarter Festival 2007 at 500 Bourbon St., Temple Sinai Gala, March 2007, Parkway Bakery and Tavern, the Lusher Soiree at Tipitinas Uptown, with Chris Rose as the emcee in December 2006, the Temple Sinai Fundraiser, with Bruce Katz as the emcee in May of 2006, French Quarter Festival 2005 on the Whitney Bank Stage, 400 Royal Street, and French Quarter Festival 2006 on the FQFI stage, 700 Royal Street. Kat has performed at Art Openings, Private Parties, Conventions and even at Buffa's. She was honored to perform at the Salute to the 8th District Police Fundraising Festival in the French Quarter in November of 2004. Kat is now singing the jazz standards she always loved
growing up. She incorporates the scat singing she listened to so much
of in one of her favorite singers, Ella Fitzgerald, whom Kat had the
privilege of seeing live in the mid 1980’s at the Folklife Festival in
Seattle, WA. Kat’s other musical influences are Mel Torme, Sarah
Vaughn,Billy Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Carmen McRae, George Gershwin,
and all the old Musical Theater Stars, such as Fred Astaire, Gene
Kelly, Julie Andrews, Ethyl Merman, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Chita
Rivera, Doris Day, Ann Miller, Bing Crosby,....(Kat used to get up in
the middle of the night when she was young to watch a musical on TV)
Local favorites are Germaine Bazzle, The Pfister Sisters and Cynthia
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KAT WALKER JAZZ VOCALIST - SONG DEMOS with BART RAMSEY on PIANO
1. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (Louis Alter, Eddie Delange)
2. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Duke Ellington, Irvin Mills)
3. Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton)
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Kat
has had a diverse life with different influences on her musicality. She
has had many piano lessons. She was the first woman golfer to compete
on the men’s team while she was a cadet at the United States Military
Academy at West Point among the third class of women. Maybe that is why
she has such a scratchy voice.(from being barked orders at and learning
to bark orders)Kat has a BA in Theater Arts with a minor in dance from
PLU in Tacoma, WA. 
