7 - 9 pm at The Couth Buzzard
2nd & 4th Mondays Some special sessions maybe be held at other locations.
We’ll jam on klezmer tunes and sing Yiddish songs together. All ages, abilities, and instruments are welcome! In fact, you don’t even need an instrument, only a voice, ears, or dancing feet. Instrumentalists less familiar with klezmer are encouraged to arrive at the start. We begin each session by either learning a new tune or by having a short workshop session. While we have sheet music in many clefs and keys, we encourage learning by ear. Jam sessions are often led by Jimmy Austin with a slight instrumental focus or Maia Brown with a slight vocal focus. (All sessions will have both instrumental and vocal-centric tunes.) Many sessions have special themes or guest facilitators.
For all ages. 12 and under with an adult present. Singers, listeners, dancers, and instrumentalists all welcome. If bringing an instrument, a small amount of experience is recommended. Beginners to klezmer are welcome.
Jams are scheduled for the second and fourth Mondays of each month.
Food available for purchase at The Couth Buzzard.
Pricing info: There is no entry fee, however, donations are strongly encouraged and are crucial to keep programming going. Suggested donation: $10-20.
Artists, poets, musicians and more are invited to take part in Second Sunday Sessions: a writing circle, open mic, and jam session co-hosted by The Residency and The Rhapsody Project! This free, monthly event will take place from 4 - 7pm on the 2nd Sunday of each month at Black & Tan Hall. Creatives of all generations are invited to take part whether they want to share a work-in-progress, freestyle, play an instrument, sing, or just enjoy a space curated by and for community.
Learn the art of spoken word and cypher, and how to alchemize emotions and experiences to relay the present through storytelling. Exercises, History, and Collaboration will be key. This is a space of building your inner conscience, and knowing you are not alone.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Dive into the heartbeat of Latin America with the Afro-Indigenous Ensemble! From congas to timbales, you’ll explore the rhythms of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Peru while tracing their African roots. All levels are welcome — come make music, move, and connect through culture and community.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Vocal Rhapsody: Discover Your Voice Rhapsody I with Briar
Tuesdays (4 - 6 pm)
A vocal class for those who love singing and want a place to express themselves while expanding their vocal dynamics, learning new songs and creating vocal arrangements as a choir.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Learn essential techniques to play guitar in a range of musical styles with Joe Seamons and occasional guest instructors. Through learning songs and exercises, developing a strategy and plan for practicing, and how to use your body in healthy and helpful ways, you will grow your versatility as both a guitarist and musician through this class.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Artist Development: Your Voice & Your Vision with Lady A
Thursdays (4 - 6 pm)
Master vocal technique through targeted exercises and hands-on coaching, both one-on-one and in groups. Build confidence and presence through live performance practice while learning the ins and outs of the music business, branding, copyrights, collaboration, and leadership. By the end, artists will understand what it means to lead and leave with a clear plan for creating their own CD or digital release.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Unbroken Circle with Various culture bearers; curated by Jed Crisologo
Thursdays (6 - 8 pm)
Join culture bearers for an immersive exploration of art, community, and heritage. In each session, you’ll engage in deep, meaningful conversations, hands-on experiences, and storytelling that connect past and present. This is a space to learn directly from tradition keepers, celebrate diverse perspectives, and strengthen your own cultural understanding.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
we'll be updating to reflect the individual presenters later once we have all the information.
Saturday, September 20th
5:00 - 6:30 pm
King Street Station Plaza
Road to One Seattle Soul
A premiere summer concert series
Lady A and The Rhapsody Project present 3 free concerts, calling back those displaced by rising costs to reconnect through music, community, and shared roots. It’s more than a concert—it's a movement to heal, uplift, and celebrate the soul of Seattle together.
Learn the art of spoken word and cypher, and how to alchemize emotions and experiences to relay the present through storytelling. Exercises, History, and Collaboration will be key. This is a space of building your inner conscience, and knowing you are not alone.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Dive into the heartbeat of Latin America with the Afro-Indigenous Ensemble! From congas to timbales, you’ll explore the rhythms of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Peru while tracing their African roots. All levels are welcome — come make music, move, and connect through culture and community.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Come join us for our twice-monthly night of musical Yiddishkayt! We’ll jam on klezmer tunes and sing Yiddish songs together. All ages, abilities, and instruments are welcome! In fact, you don't even need an instrument, only a voice, ears, or dancing feet. Instrumentalists less familiar with klezmer are encouraged to arrive at the start. We begin each session by either learning the tune-of-the-month or by having a short workshop session. While we have sheet music in many clefs and keys, we encourage learning by ear. To find tunes and other resources, visit the klezmer jam page on The Rhapsody Project’s website.
This session will lean toward instrumental tunes.
For all ages. 12 and under with an adult present. Singers, listeners, dancers, and instrumentalists all welcome. If bringing an instrument, a small amount of experience is recommended. Beginners to klezmer are welcome.
Jams are scheduled for the second and fourth Mondays of each month.
Pricing info: No entry fee, however, donations are strongly encouraged and are crucial to keep programming going. Suggested donation: $10 - 20
Vocal Rhapsody: Discover Your Voice Rhapsody I with Briar
Tuesdays (4 - 6 pm)
A vocal class for those who love singing and want a place to express themselves while expanding their vocal dynamics, learning new songs and creating vocal arrangements as a choir.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Learn essential techniques to play guitar in a range of musical styles with Joe Seamons and occasional guest instructors. Through learning songs and exercises, developing a strategy and plan for practicing, and how to use your body in healthy and helpful ways, you will grow your versatility as both a guitarist and musician through this class.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Artist Development: Your Voice & Your Vision with Lady A
Thursdays (4 - 6 pm)
Master vocal technique through targeted exercises and hands-on coaching, both one-on-one and in groups. Build confidence and presence through live performance practice while learning the ins and outs of the music business, branding, copyrights, collaboration, and leadership. By the end, artists will understand what it means to lead and leave with a clear plan for creating their own CD or digital release.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Unbroken Circle with Various culture bearers; curated by Jed Crisologo
Thursdays (6 - 8 pm)
Join culture bearers for an immersive exploration of art, community, and heritage. In each session, you’ll engage in deep, meaningful conversations, hands-on experiences, and storytelling that connect past and present. This is a space to learn directly from tradition keepers, celebrate diverse perspectives, and strengthen your own cultural understanding.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
we'll be updating to reflect the individual presenters later once we have all the information.
Face the Music
Saturday, September 27th
Seattle Art Museum
For teachers & teaching artists of the greater Seattle area. Offered as part of The Creative Advantage Institute's The Arts are The Antidote. Lunch and free parking included. Teachers can get 5 clock hours from the full day of events.
Join The Rhapsody Project's co-founder, Joe Seamons, and author and ethnomusicologist Daniel Atkinson to discover the hidden story of one of America's first Black crossover superstars, George "Nash" Walker. Using Walker's story as a jumping off point, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how racism functions in the United States, as well as tools for teaching music and history to instill that understanding.
The musical history of the U.S. constitutes a unique and powerful lens for deepening our grasp of how culture has sometimes confronted—but too often reinforced—oppressive systems that terrorize historically disenfranchised communities. With an emphasis on artists who were nonconformists, women and people of the African diaspora, each week of this workshop and discussion group explores stories about American culture and artists. Each story or artist profile will serve to ground participants in historical knowledge as we engage in facilitated, constructive discussions about how participants can use their knowledge and power to effect positive change in their families, workplaces, and communities.
Ethnomusicologist Dr. Daniel E. Atkinson offers a fresh take on the lives and accomplishments of the “Vanguard Generation” of Afro-Americans who leveraged Black cultural products for profit and prestige between the close of the Civil War and the start of World War I. Gathered from recently digitized newsprint, recordings, film and other media from the beginning of the modern era for the forthcoming book, The Rediscovery of George “Nash” Walker: The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America, the contextual depth of this data enriches the historical record with previously lacking nuance that exemplifies the Black experience, the artistic hamster wheel of ubiquitous Black cultural influence, and perpetual secondary status of Black people in the United States.
Joe Seamons is a musician and educator based in Seattle and dedicated to helping people connect with their heritage through music and storytelling. As co-founder of The Rhapsody Project, he builds communities that serve and center young people while establishing cultural equity. Alongside non-profit partners Totem Star and Red Eagle Soaring, Joe helped establish The Station Space, a new youth arts hub. As part of the leadership team of Black & Tan Hall, Joe has worked since 2016 to establish the Black-led, multi-cultural cooperative that now stewards a 3,000 square foot performance venue in South Seattle.
Learn the art of spoken word and cypher, and how to alchemize emotions and experiences to relay the present through storytelling. Exercises, History, and Collaboration will be key. This is a space of building your inner conscience, and knowing you are not alone.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Dive into the heartbeat of Latin America with the Afro-Indigenous Ensemble! From congas to timbales, you’ll explore the rhythms of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Peru while tracing their African roots. All levels are welcome — come make music, move, and connect through culture and community.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Vocal Rhapsody: Discover Your Voice Rhapsody I with Briar
Tuesdays (4 - 6 pm)
A vocal class for those who love singing and want a place to express themselves while expanding their vocal dynamics, learning new songs and creating vocal arrangements as a choir.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Learn essential techniques to play guitar in a range of musical styles with Joe Seamons and occasional guest instructors. Through learning songs and exercises, developing a strategy and plan for practicing, and how to use your body in healthy and helpful ways, you will grow your versatility as both a guitarist and musician through this class.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Artist Development: Your Voice & Your Vision with Lady A
Thursdays (4 - 6 pm)
Master vocal technique through targeted exercises and hands-on coaching, both one-on-one and in groups. Build confidence and presence through live performance practice while learning the ins and outs of the music business, branding, copyrights, collaboration, and leadership. By the end, artists will understand what it means to lead and leave with a clear plan for creating their own CD or digital release.
Level 2 / Intermediate
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Adult (26+): $400
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
Beginners and intermediate players will learn songs, meet new friends, and learn amazing stories about American musicians in the course of these weekly classes. Hosted by The Rhapsody Project's co-founder, Joe Seamons, in collaboration with teaching artists in-training Mariah Roberson and Lovegnia Afalava, these sessions will have you playing a lot of music and learning foundational skills that you can apply to any instrument!
Not only is it a group music lesson, it is also a jam session. Our teaching artists explore blues, jazz, folk and American roots music, uniquely weaving basic music theory concepts, interactive song learning, and social music playing, with an emphasis on improvisation and soloing. The song repertoire is selected to emphasize hidden or obscure stories of musicians and artists of color who greatly influenced American popular music, and the historical and social context of each song and composer is incorporated into the class.
The Rhapsody Project is a music and cultural education organization with a focus on BIPOC communities and youth. Our mission is to celebrate heritage and build community through music. We started out as a single after-school music program at Washington Middle School in 2013 and, through steady growth, we expanded to serve youth in dozens of schools throughout Seattle, Renton, and Kent, and we offer classes every day of the week at our centrally-located and accessible Workshop in King Street Station.
As a convener, we provide music instruction, cultural events, classes, and cultural workforce development to establish racial and cultural equity. Our programs invite people to root themselves in their layers of heritage and, through the power of music and culture, confront injustice while building community. We address the inequities in American music education by teaching BIPOC youth about music and stories from our heritage. We also provide pathways and economic opportunities for youth, especially Black and Indigenous youth.
Unbroken Circle with Various culture bearers; curated by Jed Crisologo
Thursdays (6 - 8 pm)
Join culture bearers for an immersive exploration of art, community, and heritage. In each session, you’ll engage in deep, meaningful conversations, hands-on experiences, and storytelling that connect past and present. This is a space to learn directly from tradition keepers, celebrate diverse perspectives, and strengthen your own cultural understanding.
Open Level
Tuition Information
Scholarships available at registration.
Full 10-week program:
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Youth (10 - 25): $100
Our programs center youth ages 10-25, and all ages are invited to join to create a rich, multigenerational space.
we'll be updating to reflect the individual presenters later once we have all the information.
