NEXTGEN Jam Review

The NEXTGEN Jam Review serves as an enrichment opportunity for young musicians

For his first community event as Eaton House Cohort of 2024, touring drummer-vocalist Dante' Pope presents the NEXTGEN Jam Review.

The NEXTGEN Jam Review serves as an enrichment opportunity for young musicians to perform, connect with each other and new audiences through the performing arts. This inaugural event will feature the Old Time Cobra's of the School of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, Maryland, youth recording artists from the Crabshack Music recording studio roster in Del Rey, Virginia and students from McKinley Technology High School in Northeast. Proceeding the performances will be a presentation from event partner, DC Collaborative of the D.C. Commission on Arts and Humanities.

As the only organization researching the arts and humanities impact within D.C.Public Schools, they will present current general disparities around accessibility to the arts and humanities for students. Other event partners include science based music education organization Finding Rhythm and Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center. In tandem with this event, Dante' is partnering with the DC Collaborative's District Data Initiative to raise funding for future research regarding funding for the arts and humanities in The District.

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ABOUT DANTE' POPE:

Dante' Pope is the current drummer for 2x Grammy award-winning, Nashville based country group, Old Crow Medicine Show. He contributed to the Grammy nominated project, Black Cowboys, in collaboration with Dom Flemons and Smithsonian Folkways in 2019. Prior to his time in American roots music, he served as music director for The Crossrhodes of Washington, DC. The group features Grammy nominated soul artist Raheem Devaughn and lyricist/poet/actor Wes Felton. Most notably, they were featured on the NPR Tiny Desk in 2018. While maintaining his role as a supporting actor for national acts, Dante' is a solo artist recording and performing music across genres.

In 2019 he was a member of the Strathmore Performing Arts Center's AIR program and has been touring and performing across the country. Most notably, The John F. Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, The DC Jazz Festival, House of Blues in Chicago, Rockwood Music Hall in New York City just to name a few.He is currently a returning DC Recording Academy Chapter Governor and outgoing chapter vice president. His dedication to service through the arts is fueled by his experience as a District public charter school general music teacher for several years at Two Rivers Public Charter Schools teaching preschool through eighth grade. He has partnered with the Mayor's Youth Employment Program, College Success Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Guerilla Arts, The National Museum of American History, The Lemelson Institute as a teaching artist. He was trained from elementary through high school at the prestigious Merit School of Music downtown Chicago and Fisk University as a part of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in undergraduate.