Preserving and Advancing the Art of Tap Dance.
Celebrating National Tap Dance Day, May 25th.
Enjoy this clip of Arthur Duncan in Cute with Larry Hooper at the Lawrence Welk Show, 1979.
Dr. Arthur Duncan, Honored at the 2004 Tap Extravaganza® with the Flo-Bert Lifetime Achievement Award.
Also Honored that year were Mable Lee, Frankie Manning, George Wein and LeRoy Myers.
To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us in celebrating the Birthday of LeRoy Myers today 11/10/1919.
Born in North Philadelphia, a Tap Master, National Treasure and the Tap Legacy™ Foundation First Honorary Board Member.
Please take a moment and thoroughly check his tribute website http://leroymyers.taplegacy.org/
Get to know LeRoy Myers, The Tap Dancer, Founding President and Business Manager of The Copasetics Inc. plus more. Enjoy.
The next addition to the Tap Legacy Tribute Websites
As LeRoy Myers’ birthday right around the corner we are happy to launch the LeRoy Myers tribute site this month.
LeRoy Myers was the first member of the Tap Legacy Foundation’s Honorary Board and instrumental in the growth of the foundation during its early years. A child performer and member of multiple tap dance acts in the 30s and 40s, LeRoy was a founding member and the first President of the Copasetics, Inc.
LeRoy’s desire to see tap dance continually championed culminated in a decade long tap jam at Showmans Jazz Club, the unofficial club house of the Copasetics. The number of lives he touched were evident upon his passing, when a number of tributes were produced, including a plaque at Showmans, a renaming of the street corner where he lived, and the posthumous presentation of the Flo-Bert Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Check out the tribute website and get to know even more about LeRoy Myers – a man among men.