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.
Jacob B. Johnson: Birthday Concert @ BOP STOP
August 8 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Come celebrate the birthday of Jacob B. Johnson featuring some of Cleveland's finest vocalists and musicians! Tickets to this event will be $20 in advance, $25 day of show. This event will not be livestreamed.
Featuring:
- Jacob B. Johnson
- Dr. David M. Thomas
- Wayne A. Deadwiley
- Bill Ransom
- Chris Burge
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Jacob B. Johnson is a vocalist, arts educator, musician, vocal coach and regional award-winning actor. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Johnson has performed on many of Cleveland's stages including Severance Hall, Bop Stop, Nighttown, House of Blues, Music Box Supper Club, Tri-C JazzFest, and Playhouse Square.
As a vocalist, his professional works have been heard on national TV networks such as ABC, FOX and PBS. He has also opened for grammy winning artists such as Kid Cudi, Ledisi and Lisa Fischer, as well as headlining summer festivals in the midwest. Johnson has also went viral on social media after being invited sing on stage with grammy award-winning vocalist, Patti LaBelle.
Johnson has accompanied the likes of internet sensations, national performers and international touring artists for the world-renowned Severance Hall and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a jazz pianist. These artists include Reggie Kelly, Callie Day, Kierra Sheard-Kelly, Lalah Hathaway and Rachelle Ferrell.
His other professional works include local, regional and national theater productions where Johnson has served as vocal coach, orchestra pianist or music director. These professional productions include The Wiz, Brooklyn The Musical, 42nd Street, Boundless Grace, In The Heights, Bring It On: The Musical, Dreamgirls, Urinetown, Chicago, Black Nativity, and Ain't Misbehavin'. Johnson has also written music scores for independent films and scripted streaming TV shows.
Currently, Johnson is the organist for Zion Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, vocal music director at Dike School of the Arts, and resident performer for the oldest operating african-american theater in the country, the historic Karamu House Theater.