Clayton Peg Leg Bates Honored National Tap Dance Day 1994 Bates, Clayton "Peg Leg" performer Concert 1994-10-16 Haft Auditorium, Fashion Institute of Technology Presented by the New York Committee to Celebrate National Tap Dance Day, a program honoring the 87th birthday of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates. Master of Ceremonies Hoagy B. Carmichael. Video showing of White Suit Dance, "this is Show Business" (1948); Long John Silver Dance, "Ken Murray's Blackouts" (1949); Challenge Dance with Hal LeRoy, "Ed Sullivan Show" (1955); Challenge Dance with Little Buck, "Ed Sullivan Show" (1965), followed by a panel discussion with Peg Leg Bates, Geoffrey Holder, Melba Huber, Harold Nicholas; performers include Young Ladies Tap Chorus (Soraya Benac, Vanessa Gallo, Nichole Macak, Traci Mann), Tap Soloists Chuck Green, Tarik Winston, Jimmy Slyde; Combined Chorus Dancers from The Cotton Club Girls (Juanita Boisseau, Vivian Brown, Tondelayo Levy), The Silver Belles (Marion Coles, Bertye Lou Wood, Elaine Ellis), and The Swinging Seniors (Ruby Riley, Chickie Martin, Myrtle Hawkins). Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Hill, Constance Valis: Constance Valis Hill, personal collection of tap dance materials. (). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (biography) loc.music.tdabio.22 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.2674