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.
Dan Bruce Trio @ BOP STOP
August 6 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join local guitarist Dan Bruce and his trio for an evening of favorite standards and more. Dan will be performing with the inimitable Aidan Plank (bass) and Steve Renko (drums).
Tickets for this performance are $25 each (plus $3 fee). This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.
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By embracing the influence of his heroes from the jazz tradition and retaining his own musical personality, guitarist Dan Bruce has developed a unique and impressive musical voice. Now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio after spending a decade as an important member of Chicago’s vibrant jazz scene, he is active throughout the United States as a performer, recording artist, composer and educator.
Bruce has performed on more than fifty albums as a sideman and has released four albums as a leader. He has worked with several eminent musicians including Seamus Blake, Ali Jackson, Sean Jones, Dan Wall, Lynn Seaton, Dan Wilson, and Marquis Hill. His groups have been featured in The Chi-Town Jazz Festival, The Chicago Composers Collective series at the Green Mill, The Chicago Cultural Center Chamber Music Series, The Jazz Institute of Chicago NextGen Jazz Series, South by Southwest (TX), The Toledo Jazz Festival, and The Rubber City Jazz Festival. He has been profiled in Fingerstyle Guitar, allaboutjazz.com, on WDCB 90.9 FM Chicago, WKSU 104.9 Cleveland, coolcleveland.com, and Chicago Jazz Magazine.
Dan is a member of The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Alla Boara, The Oblivion Project, Stephen Philip Harvey Octet and Big Band, and Reclamation Band. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Hingetown Jazz Festival, an annual festival that takes place in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland. In 2020 and 2024 Dan received an Individual Excellence Award in Music Composition from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2024 he was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Bruce is currently on faculty at Cuyahoga Community College.
https://www.danbrucemusic.com/
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