Hispanic Heritage Awards
September 5 | Kennedy Center, DC
Children's Outreach Tour: The Little Engine That Could
September 18-20 | Delaware & New Jersey
Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards
September 23 | NYC
Silence The Violence
September 29 | National United Methodist Church, DC
What The World Needs Now: A Celebration of Dionne Warwick
A private event in partnership with the Library of Congress
October 1 | Library of Congress, DC
PBS Concert Screening: Broadway's Leading Men
Date TBA | Washington, DC
No One Is Alone- Mental Health Concert
November 13 | New York, NY
Annual City Center DC Holiday Tree Lighting
November 30| Washington, DC
NextGen Semi-Finalist Competition
December 1 | Virtual
Name That Tune
December 3 | Virtual
Children's Outreach Tour: The Little Engine ThatCould
December 18-20 | Mid-Ohio Valley
NextGen Live Finals Competition
January 19 | Lincoln Center, NYC
On November 20, our monthly Children’s Outreach Tour livestream showcased “Woodwind Showcase,” an interactive music education program for children of all ages led by.
We met some members of the woodwind family with a live show-and-tell, songs, music history, and a live Q&A!
Watch the recording and stay up-to-date with our monthly livestreams below!
In partnership with Lincoln Center, No One is Alone is a groundbreaking concert dedicated to exploring the shared struggles of mental health through the power of music at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium in New York, NY with featured artists Morgxn, Joely Fisher, MILCK, Adam Hyndman, Natascia Diaz and Aundi Moore!
Join us for this free musical celebration and learn more below!
We're thrilled to announce that our "Name That Tune" trivia livestream series is back! Hosted by Maestro Luke Frazier with live musical clues, this event is the perfect chance to put your musical knowledge to the test. The top 3 winners even receive a tasty prize! All proceeds benefit our NextGen Collegiate Vocal Competition.
We are thrilled to share that our recent Children’s Outreach Tour across West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky was a success! Thank you to Sean Bell, Hilary Morrow and Tommy Sutter for their beautiful performances of Pied Piper. We are grateful for this opportunity and cannot wait to continue bringing high quality children’s programming to schools across the country!
APO's newest star-studded concert for PBS premiered August 13th and is available to watch on PBS Passport now!Curated and conducted by Luke Frazier, this show features brand-new arrangements performed by The American Pops Orchestra. Broadway star Megan Hilty (NBC’s Smash, Wicked, Annie Live!) is joined by Michael Maliakel (Disney’s Aladdin, The Phantom of the Opera, Monsoon Wedding), Nikki Renée Daniels (Company, Hamilton), and Tommy Sutter (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, White Christmas) to perform Golden Age classics to today’s Broadway hits.
Our Children's Outreach Tour had unprecedented support this fall and we are so happy to be able to continue bringing high quality children's programming to schools across the country. Thank you to Nic Rouleau, Hilary Morrow, Chris Richie, and Audri Bartholomew for their beautiful performances, and thank you to Arts Bridge for helping us reach the wonderful schools we visited.
CityCenterDC and APO presented a 3-part concert series entitled“Summer Groovefest with The American Pops Orchestra”. Each concert featured a unique musical theme (Motown, 90’s Divas, and Disco) and highlighted the talents of local and nationally acclaimed performers.Curated and conducted by Luke Frazier, this series had audiences on their feet, grooving to the hits of each musical era! We hope to see you next summer.
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The American Pops Orchestra has made it a priority to not only maintain Pre-COVID content in a virtual form, but also create new content to keep our audience engaged and our musicians employed. As an organization that strives to break the mold of concerts, we are using COVID-19 to reimagine our normal operations. Since March we have streamed two full original concerts, created solo performances by instrumentalist and vocalists, rethought our Music and Mindfulness series as a more often and virtual event, and partnered with organizations across the country in our virtual trivia series.
In addition, APO has held multiple in-person socially distanced outdoor Porch Concerts that provide our audience with the opportunity to safely see live art despite the current situation around us. Throughout the pandemic, APO has employed hundreds of musicians and artists and in a time when many other organizations couldn’t. In the words of Maestro Luke Frazier, “we never stopped.”
Moving forward, APO is proud to present our NextGen National vocal competition which will include students from across the country competing virtually for the chance to win a monetary prize and the opportunity to perform in a future APO MainStage Show. This will include a virtual audition and semi-finals with a live (COVID permitting) finals in Spring of 2021. APO has also filmed multiple productions that will be broadcast nationally on PBS. APO has been grateful to keep creating and making music despite the limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will keep working to bring you, our valued audience, original and unique content.
To support APO as we keep moving forward you can click here, so that we can continue to employ more artists and musicians. If you have any questions about what APO has been doing during the pandemic, please email hannah@theamericanpops.org. Thank you and stay safe.
