Music Instruction
Award-winning music lessons, ensembles, and group classes for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels — children, teens, and adults.
Early Childhood
Morning & Full-Day Preschool programs with a full, child-centered curriculum of creative specials like music, science, drama, social and emotional learning, and more!
Music Therapy
Established in 1966, our pioneering Center for Music Therapy (CMT) uses guided music experiences to help individuals meet life's challenges.
Bop Stop
BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.
June 30 from 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Cleveland-based singer, musician, teaching artist, and award-winning stage actor, Jacob B. Johnson, performs a livestreamed concert in front of a small in person audience! Jacob's band features:
We have a very limited number of tables available to attend the show in person. Ticket buyers must purchase an entire table and each table seats up to four guests. The BOP STOP bar will be open and snacks are available to purchase. Feel free to bring your own food. Masks required.
In addition, this event will be streamed on BOP STOP's Facebook page at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations to the band and the venue are appreciated and can be made here: https://givebutter.com/Johnson
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As a jazz pianist, Johnson has accompanied internet sensations, national performers, international touring artists and various local artists including Malcolm White, Callie Day, Evelyn Wright, and Conya Doss.
As a singer, Johnson has a performed on many Cleveland stages including the House of Blues, Nighttown, BOP STOP and Severance Hall. Singing various genres of music, ranging from Classical and Jazz to Musical Theater and R&B, Johnson has sung "'Round Midnight" with jazz ensembles and "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Johnson has acted on the stages of Cleveland Public Theater, Karamu House and Playhouse Square, winning the 2017 "Dazzle Award" for Best Featured Performer for his performance as the Royal Gatekeeper in "The Wiz".
Currently, Johnson is the CMSD All-City Arts Program assistant music director, a Minister of Music and resident performer for the oldest African-American theater in the country, the historic Karamu House Theater.