Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival (Ninth Annual) Waag, Tony performer Festival 2009-07-06 Symphony Space July 6-11, 2009 Ninth Annual Tap City Festival. Held at Chelsea Dance Studios and Symphony Space, NYC. Festival features tap courses and classes, for youth, teens, and adults, performances, gala, annual Tap Dance Hall of Fame Induction, Tap Preservation Award, Hoofer Awards, Tap Teacher Awards, Toe Knee Award, panel discussions, tap talks/tap films, tap jams. 2009 International Tap Dance Hall of Fame Inductees: The Class Act (Coles & Atkins, Pete Nugent), Brenda Bufalino ; 2009 Hoofer Award: Mercedes Ellington and Randy Skinner; 2009 Tap Preservation Award: Marshall and Jean Stearns. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance (). American Tap Dance Foundation: American Tap Dance Foundation. http://www.atdf.org/; http://www.atdf.org/history.html (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Tony Waag (biography) loc.music.tdabio.181 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.2654