Celebrating Duke Ellington’s

125th Birthday in the City of Jazz

Monday, May 6, 2024 (8pm)

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre

Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street

Presented by the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts

in association with the American Tap Dance Foundation

Co-hosted by Mercedes Ellington & Tony Waag

A celebration of the 125th birthday of jazz great Duke Ellington with The Duke Ellington Center Big Band under the musical direction of Eli Yamin. Special guest artist and eight-time Grammy Award winner Arturo O’Farrill will be featured in the evening’s lineup of dancers, vocalists, and surprise guests, including drummer Bobby Sanabria, Broadway veteran Ty Stephens, top tappers AC Lincoln, Max Pollak, Karen Callaway Williams, and jazz singers Antoinette Montague and Marion Cowings. The multiple award-winning icon of New York City cabaret, Sidney Myer, will be the narrator for this special event.

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Staff

Tony Waag - Artistic/Executive Director

Susan Hebach - Youth Program/TCYE Director

Adante Power - Studio Operations Manager

Margaret Morrison - Education Advisor

Mark Kellogg - Design

Board of Directors

Debra Beard

Mercedes Ellington

Pamela Koslow Hines

Nancy Kremsdorf

Linda Murray

Cynthia J. Roush

Randy Skinner

Kim Thacker - ATDF President

Tony Waag - ATDF Artistic/Executive Director

Emeritus Board

Brenda Bufalino

Hoagy B. Carmichael

the late Charles "Honi" Coles

the late Gregory Hines

the late Maurice Hines

the late Bobby Short

Supporters

The American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. would like to thank the following for their generous support: New York Community Trust, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the David Kellogg Family Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Tsunami Foundation - Anson and Debra Beard, Jr. and Family, and numerous individuals, friends and families.