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Morning & Full-Day Preschool programs with a full, child-centered curriculum of creative specials like music, science, drama, social and emotional learning, and more!
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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.
Blue Lunch Featuring Tad Robinson @ BOP STOP
April 22 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Tad Robinson, one of the leading voices of modern soul-blues music, joins Cleveland's own legendary blues band, Blue Lunch! Tickets to attend in person are $20 each. This event will also be livestreamed. Accessing the stream is free on BOP STOP's Facebook page at showtime but donations are greatly appreciated and can be made at www.givebutter.com/BlueLunchMusic
Blue Lunch is a 9 piece band with a 3 piece horn section that has been playing its eclectic mix of blues, soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues at festivals, clubs, private events, and a variety of outdoor venues throughout the region for over 36 years. Blue Lunch is unique in its use of multiple vocalists and harmony vocals. The band has also produced 8 CDs to date, including "Saxophone Shootout, Live at Nighttown" which placed in the top 5 Self-Produced CDs in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
The band has performed multiple times over the years at the Bop Stop, including a sold out show behind the club to kick off the summer of 2021, overlooking scenic Route 2! The band is always evolving, and in the last year has added soulful 27 year old vocalist Maya Nicholson, along with equally soulful, recent Florida transplant, Billy Seward on guitar and vocals.
Featuring:
- Bob Michael, Trombone
- Chris Burge, Sax
- Pete London, Vocals/Harmonica
- Mike Rubin, Trumpet
- Scott Flowers, Drums
- Ray DeForest, Bass/Vocals
- Mike Sands, Piano
- Billy Seward, Guitar/Vocals
- Maya Nicholson, Vocals
- Tad Robinson, Vocals/Harmonica
From his Manhattan roots and his Indiana and Chicago musical upbringing, Tad Robinson has caught the attention of the music world with his eight Blues Music Award nominations (the Grammys of blues music) and his many recordings on Severn Records and Delmark Records. He’s a veteran of countless national and international tours, having played in over twenty countries, performing at many of the most important international blues festivals. With harmonica chops influenced by Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson, Junior Wells and James Cotton, among many, and vocals thatcompare to Otis Redding, Syl Johnson, Al Green, and Teddy Pendergrass, Robinson, according to Downbeat Magazine, “places near the top of the list of finest living singers of soul blues”.
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