Music Instruction
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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.
Performing Music By The Beatles
February 22 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Grammy award winning drummer, Paul Francis, returns to the BOP STOP! He has appeared on several Grammy Award winning albums and with artists such as Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder. Last spring, he released his album "All Your Life: Interpretations of the Beatles" featuring quartet arrangements on Beatles' classics. Tickets to attend this show are $20. This event will not be live-streamed.
Featuring:
"The entire audience was enthralled as the Paul Francis Quartet played its selection of intriguing and appealing arrangements."-Vaughn Wiester, arranger, conductor, trombonist
Biography:
Grammy Award-winning drummer and educator Paul Francis has extensive experience working with some of the world’s greatest musicians. He is featured on the Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett album and subsequent PBS special “Cheek to Cheek”, and toured extensively with the duo to support that recording. Paul has also recorded and/or performed with Stevie Wonder, Jose Feliciano, Jon Faddis, David Hazeltine, Jim Belushi, Molly Ringwald, Megan Hilty, The Rockettes, Ralph Lalama, Brian Newman, Rich Little, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and The Albany Symphony Orchestra, and the Tommy DorseyOrchestra conducted by Buddy Morrow. Paul has also appeared on shows for HBO, ABC, NBC, Netflix and MTV, and is on the soundtrack for the movie “Friends with Kids” as well as “A Star is Born” featuring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Paul endorses Yamaha drums, Sabian cymbals, Remo drumheads and Vic Firth drumsticks.
As an educator, Paul has taught all ages and playing levels. He has taught master classes at SUNY Purchase, University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, as well as continuing to teach at his own private studio. He has also been published in Modern Drummer and Drumhead magazines.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Music from The Ohio State University and a Master of Music from SUNY Purchase. He has studied with musicians such as John Riley, Kenny Washington, Jim Chapin, Jim Rupp, Joe Ong and Chad Rager.