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During special Tap-A-Long performances, host Toes Tiranoff and his repertoire of featured dancers will be your guides through the best ragtime, stride, and jazz the Big Apple has to offer.
Find Tap-A-Long on the Upper Terrace at the base of the William Cullen Bryant Statue behind the New York Public Library. Join us during more Piano in Bryant Park performances and live music at the same location during the week.
Piano in Bryant Park is proud to present a Tap-A-Long, hosted by Toes Tiranoff with live music by Yuka Aikawa.
Toes Tiranoff featured dancers:
Megan Haungs, Yuka Kameda, Nyles Lattimore, Michela Marino Lerman, Beverly Ann Moore, and Toru Sakuragi
About pianist Yuka Aikawa:
Pianist and composer Yuka Aikawa began playing piano at the age of five in her native country, Japan. She studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where she received her M.A. in jazz performance under the guidance of Sir Roland Hanna and Jimmy Heath. During this time, she received the prestigious Michael Feinstein Award for “Outstanding Talent.” When not at Bryant Park, you can hear Yuka at various jazz clubs in and around the New York area, as an accompanist for jazz choir The Lance Hayward Singers, or on Carline Ray's beautiful album Vocal Sides. Yuka's new trio album, Clouds and Water, has been released in Japan, where she tours every year. In addition to being a resident Tap-A-Long pianist at Bryant Park, Yuka has worked alongside Harold Cromer, a tap dancer, for Hats Off, Taps On for Gregory, a tribute to Gregory Hines, at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.