Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.
The Zoo Band at Music Box is a group of emerging-professional musicians, composed of middle and high school students. These are students that take instrument, vocal and music production lessons. The group's diverse and expansive contemporary music repertoire of covers and originals speaks to the complete human experience of identity, love, loss, longing, and good times. Music Box musicians meet weekly to learn, write and practice together, under the leadership and guidance of a Music Box Modern Band Educator. The band draws inspiration from past and present music legends, various cultures and music styles, and always seeks to further refine their signature sound, give back to their community, and use their skills and talents for good. The band has been playing together for over 3 years, and has several recorded originals that they also perform.
Performing music ranging from Usher to Herbie Hancock to Kendrick Lamar, STEM Beats takes pride in delivering only the highest quality. Hailing from Holyoke, MA, we are the music program at Holyoke STEM Academy, a public middle school with approximately 300 students. Every student at STEM Academy is part of STEM Beats for the entire year.
STEM Beats has performed at various local schools, Boston University, hosted music education classes, and much more. We perform music chosen and arranged by our students. Our group features keyboards, drum sets, singers, rappers, mallet percussion, bass, and guitar. We are not a band, we are not a choir—WE ARE STEM BEATS!
Versatile is a collective of talented musicians from Alabama State University. Established in the spring of 2022, the ensemble includes both non-music, music majors, and majors who excel as musical code-switchers. The group takes pride in their professionalism, creativity, and versatility as music makers and multi-instrumentalists.
Soulsville Strings Electric is a quintet comprised of some of our best string players. They perform various genres of music on an electric string quartet along with electric bass guitar.
