Kathryn Taubert: Links

Buy Kathryn's 2008 CD: "Somewhere In Time" JUST RELEASED by D and M Records!: Click on title to order your copy of Kathryn's 2008 CD: "Somewhere In Time," at the D and M Records website, featuring fabulous new arrangements of old standards, with Kathryn's original lyrics to such classics as "Somewhere In Time" and "Clair de Lune", vocal duets, swing, jazz, sambas, and more.
Buy Kathryn's 2007 CD "Where Can I Go Without You?"
Buy Album or Individual tunes at CDBABY.com
Independent Artists Company
Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club, Miromar Lakes, Florida: The premier Resort property in Southwest Florida, with it's award winning amenities, including the European-inspired Beach Club House on beautiful Lake Como where Kathryn & The ALLTHATJAZZ Quartet perform regularly.
Miromar Lakes is truly "Where You Want To Be."
Skip Haynes & The Black Tie Band: The Black Tie Band leader is Skip Haynes, who has extensive musical experience including a stint as the backup band for Pat Boone´s TV Dance Party (1956) and solo performances with the Woody Herman Band (1959). Skip is proficient on soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, and flute. He also provides vocals. The four piece band provides music and entertainment for many area private and public clubs, dances, weddings and parties in SW Florida. The Band repertoire spans standards, Latin, Dixieland, light jazz and easy rock and each performance is tailored to suit the individual audience.
Bill Cherry: Bill's referring to himself as piano tuner is tantamount to Einstein suggesting that he "fiddled around a little with numbers." Bill, a published author, radio and tv personality, businessman and musician, was Kathryn's mentor at the beginning, helping secure her first professional gig in 1966 at the Lookout Room in Galveston's exotic Flagship Hotel on the Pier. Bill is a man of many talents, with a vitae in music (among other things) that found him playing some of the most famous 5 star dining rooms thoughout the USA. Bill now lives in Dallas, and performs his piano wizardry only on a part-time basis, but his influence is still very much felt nationwide. And the pianos he tunes are very, very happy.
Bill Cherry vitae: "Einstein" revealed here.
Florida Backroads Travel: Check out my friend MIke Miller's blog if you have any interest in checking out Florida's most interest highways, biways, backroads, history and events.
Chalk Dust and Paper Cuts: My friend Lee Silvan writes a wonderful blog of interest to anyone who has ever been in a classroom in ANY capacity. Check it out!!
"The Virtuoso", a novel by George P. Walmsley: A new novel by my good friend George P. Walmsley, "The Virtuoso," is a labor of love, taking place in New York, and the Big Easy, New Orleans.
In George's words, "The Virtuoso" is a mainstream contemporary novel laced with the struggles and ambivalence of a young man's desire to be a jazz musician and the forces that move him in another direction - toward the classics. How this dilemma resolves itself and the escapades along the way and beyond will both rouse, yet soothe your quest for escape from the mundane! "The Virtuoso"
is also love story as well as a story with scarlet moments of lust from that oldest story of all - the story of human frailty against the spear of temptation."
Check it out!!
Some of Kathryn's Favorite Charities: Kathryn believes that those who have the ability, time and resources to do so have a willing obligation to "give back." She spends a great deal of her time volunteering in causes from animal welfare, developmental disabilities, the environment, among others. Below are three of her favorite charities, but by no means the only ones she endorses and supports. Profits from the sale of her 2007 CD, "Where Can I Go Without You?" are donated to charity.
Danbury Animal Welfare Society, Inc: The website of a very special group of animals, and people, in southwestern Connecticut. The largest totally volunteer owned and operated animal welfare organization in CT, with a stand-alone shelter and many local programs, Kathryn spent many heartwarming hours socializing abused dogs, and serving as President. She learned that donations to this "no-kill" shelter do precisely what "DAWS" claims they do.
Gulf Coast Charity Swim: Site of the annual event at Miromar Lakes Florida to benefit the Florida Lions Camp for disabled youth. Kathryn, also a long-distance swimmer, chaired the first two events which raised enough money to send 51 disabled children to for a week each. Youth with challenging disabilities have the opportunity to learn life-long skills while having fun just like their enabled peers, in a beautiful camp setting in central Florida in which they are not just "disabled," but merely different, unique, and as capable, in their own ways, as "anyone else."
Doctors Without Borders: An incredible group of clinicians who risk their lives to provide medical care to people in places of which many in the USA have never even heard, much less seen. Treating people without regard to race, nationality, creed, color, or socio-economic status, this organization was also a favorite charity of Kathryn's late husband, Capt. Al Taubert, who, as a Pan American World Airways commercial airline pilot, saw many of those places Doctors Without Borders goes. Al's positive influence on the lives of those around him was profound, enduring, and an example to all who knew him.