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For
more than 30 years Cecelia has performed Calloway
songs, storytelling workshops, lectures,
demonstrations, presentations and concerts; in
schools, hospitals, senior homes, museums,
community centers, including The Eubie Blake
Cultural Center in Baltimore, MD, where her father
Cab grew up as a little boy. Today, Cecelia
continues the preservation, development and
production of the life and history of Cab Calloway
and the Calloway legacy. For more than a decade she
has operated her C.L. Calloway Entertainment
entity, and also organized a business network
operation and Co-founded a not for profit
organization, The Cab Calloway
Foundation, Inc. of New York.
Cecelia Calloway is the Hosting
Director of The Calloway
Foundation which operates in her old Calloway
homestead in pursuit to keep Cab Calloway's dream
alive. Cecelia is hosting his legacy and ongoing
projects called Yesterday Meets
Today. She is also the niece of
legendary first black women big bandleader (Cab's
older sister) Blanche Calloway. At the age of 4 she
traveled to several foreign countries with Cab, her
mom and older sister Chris Calloway, legendary
vocalist and performer. When Cecelia was 8 years
old she began her musical career recording songs at
Paramount studios in New York with her father Cab
accompanied by a 19 or more piece orchestra. One of
the songs recorded was a duet with Cab and Lael
Calloway entitled "Little
Child". This song hit the charts during
the era when other celebrity artist were listed on
the same chart such as Danny Kaye, Nat King Cole
and other legends of our time. You can listen to
this enchanting song by clicking on the link at the
top left of the page.
Cecelia has appeared with her
father in Jet,
Ebony, and Tan
Magazines, in news articles, on many concert tours
(Dallas, California, New Orleans, Chicago, Paris,
Australia, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, etc.) and on the
televised broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show. At an
early age she was a part of a live televised
broadcast series with Cab and the Calloway family
on Ed
R. Murrow 'Person
to Person' TV show, visiting the CAB ship.
During her childhood years between 7-17 years old
she help host and entertain functions at the
Calloway home in White Plains with her mom and
sisters for celebrity friends, associates and
dignitaries visiting Cab. The Cab ship is where all
the star studded celebrities visited. It's an
icon/trade mark location and virtually priceless,
which still possesses all of their spirits. Before
his death, Cab expressed a desire that the house be
kept to help preserve his musical legacy. Cab
Calloway, called Greenburgh (White Plains), New
York home for many years and often said he would
like to have his legacy kept alive here.
Here are just a few of these
legendary performers and people who spent time
rehearsing and celebrating life at the estate with
the Calloway family...
Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Nat
King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., E. Simms Campbell.
Dinners with Dizzy Gillespie, Loentyne Price, Pearl
Bailey, Slappy White, Gordon Parks, Eddie Haywood,
Nipsie Russell, Michael Jackson, Ruby Dee and Ossie
Davis, big parties with the Harlem Globe Trotters,
Lionel Hampton, Panama Francis, Dave Brubeck, Billy
Eckstine, Roy Campanella and Cab's band members;
Milt Hinton, Fletcher Henderson, Chuck Berry, Cozy
Cole, and the great producer of Hello Dolly, David
Merrick.
Hi De Ho.............
WELCOME!!!
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