Janet Schreiner's background in professional children's and musical theatre creates The Cat's Pajamas' high octane blend of music and theatrical highjinks. Janet sings lead vocals, plays the autoharp and the kazoo, and runs the band (which is like herding cats). She also wears a shower cap on stage, packs a 4 foot shark and a plunger, and makes puppets out of Christine's socks! "Can you believe how much music comes out of that little person?" -quote from Justin, the drummer!

Debbie Stahl has taught music at Germantown Friends School for 24 years. She sings harmony and plays bass and acoustic guitars and, as the other original Cat's Pajama, has been performing with Janet since 1990. Her brand new shiny red bass guitar is a Gibson named Susie!

Christine Havrilla electric and acoustic guitars and vocals with The Cats. Named one of the top 10 Indie Artists by Advocate Magazine, she has received two Meet the Composer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Six award winning albums and a unique sound best described as "neofunkadelicfolkpoptwangrock."Releasing her next album on May 17. The Christine Havrilla Band includes Duane on drums and Bob on harmonica - see below!). Please check her website for performances and excellent CDs.

Duane Large, drummer for the band, also plays guitar, bass, mandolin, piano and lute. He has a degree in Classical Guitar Performance and masters degrees in Music History and Performance from Temple University where he is an adjunct professor of music theory and history. He is also a featured performer with The Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society and has played mandolin with The Philadlephia Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Duane has an extensive teaching practice both privately and at Germantown Friends School where he teaches music history and theory, guitar, bass and piano. He is also the drummer in The Christine Havrilla Band!

Also appearing with The Cat's Pajamas is Dan Kleiman on keyboards. Dan did the arrangements for "Reading Rocks!" Dan has performed and/or recorded with Ernie Watts, James Bron, The Fifth Dimension and many others and he leads and composes for the highly regarded jazz group, Siora. . The newest addition to the band is Bob Beach on harmonica and flute! He's a regular at World Cafe Live and you can also see him with The Christine Havrilla Band. Jim Hamilton, our percussionist, has toured and recorded with Grammy Award winning artists BoyzIIMen, Gerald Alston and others. He now appears with many area orchestras and is an accompanist for both Philadanco and the University of the Arts. Jim is also the owner of Rittenhouse Recording Studios where he produced the second Cats Pajamas' album, "Goin' Bananas!" and engineered "Reading Rocks!"

The "Reading Rocks!" school band is also thrilled to include drummer Justin Leigh. Please visit all these musicians at their websites and see what they do when they're not playing with The Cat's Pajamas! You'll be amazed! We are very proud to have such talented and accomplished musicians working with us!