The Skat Kats band include family and friends of babies and children being treated for brain cancer. In this delightful CD they will also be supported by celebrity guests and also the cancer survivors themselves, who have cameo performances on the CD.

Ruby Belafanti, (guest trumpet/vocals) who has a partially inoperable brain tumour, proves that you can have a tumour and still be a top little cat. 

Ruby’s sister Ella, features on flute, while brain tumour survivor Sara Aaron (piano) also proves that despite the upheaval of a brain tumour diagnosis in the family, we can always find a song in our heart.

Bill Risby, one of Australia’s leading lights of jazz who played all the piano on this CD was recently treated for a tumour of the ear. Bill, who features as Pat Kat (piano)h yep in the band, is living proof that you can still be cool, no matter how much hair you have - or haven’t!

Of course this CD could not have come together without the extraordinary talents of our celebrity guests and supporters. This includes the Spet-Katular James Morrison on trumpet; the legendary Jimmy Barnes and his Mexican Mariarchi band; country music stars Troy Cassar-Daley and Felicity Urquhart; brain tumour survivor and 2GB broadcaster  Alan Jones for his singing and on air support; Kirrawee high school big band and Jaz Dolso, Rebecca Breeds (Ruby on Home & Away); jazz singer Elana Stone, children’s entertainer George Washingmachine and jazz drummer and studio drummer Anthony Howe who also engineered, mixed and mastered the project.  Not to mention world famous illustrator Guy Parker-Rees who generously donated the cover artwork for the project.