The American Pops Orchestra strives to build community through the preservation, promotion and reimagination of American popular music. Through live and virtual performances, educational initiatives and collaborations APO makes the highest quality art accessible to the broadest audiences.
New Episodes 17 & 24 February and 17 & 24 March
The American Pops Orchestra presents a Storybook Series combining American popular music and classic fairy tales. Starring Hilary Morrow, join APO every 3rd and 4th week of the month as Ms. Gigglesworth tries to get her pets to sleep with a new story!
Can’t get enough of your favorite Drag Out the Holly artists? Now you can learn even more about Alexis Michelle, Jujubee, Peppermint, and Lagoona Bloo as well as singer-songwriter Bright Light Bright Light and Pennsylvania Representative Brian Sims. Equally hilarious and impactful, watch never-seen-before footage of our “Drag Out The Holly” stars!
Every Tuesday at 7:00pm ET
Name That Tune is back! Gather your team of music experts as Maestro Frazier returns with Tuesday night trivia in February 2021.
APO’s Name That Tune series began in June 2020, with each weekly trivia game featuring a nonprofit partner organization. Each 30-minute game features a new musical theme and is live-streamed via APO’s Facebook page, with the answer sheet for each game posted in the chat-box. NTT is a suggested donation event, with all donations being split between APO and their weekly partner!
The American Pops Orchestra will present the Finals of the 4th Annual “NextGen National: Finding the Voices of Tomorrow” on April 10, 2021. College students from coast to coast will compete for the chance to win a $1,000 scholarship and paid performance opportunity with APO in their 2021-2022 Season. Join APO and our 10 finalists selected in November 2020 by our esteemed panel of judges and your vote to see who will win the top prize! Registration coming soon.
Founded in 2015 by rising Pops star Luke Frazier (@fraziersedge), The American Pops Orchestra presents innovative orchestral programming featuring groundbreaking concepts and artistic partnerships to develop and inspire a new audience for the 21st century.
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.