Dante’ Pope is a multi-genre percussionist from the westside of Chicago, based in Washington, D.C. Dante’ serves as the newest addition to Grammy Award®–winning, Nashville–based group Old Crow Medicine Show as the percussionist & featured vocalist. Dante’ was featured on percussion and vocals on the 2019 Grammy®–nominated album Black Cowboys. The album is a collaboration with friend of the proGram, Mr. Dom Flemons, founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Smithsonian Folkways. Dante’ also served as drummer and music director for soul artists and lyricists Raheem Devaugh and Wes Felton, known as The Crossrhodes. His arranging and musicianship was featured for their NPR Tiny Desk Concert in 2017. Since his debut EP release After Five Music in 2019, Dante’ Pope has released several singles and EPs based in soul, jazz, blues, and hip hop traditions. As a solo act, he has played Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, the Strathmore Performing Arts Center, DC Jazz Festival and a host of venues throughout the U.S. He and the band put on yet another exception show on the Kennedy Center‘s Millennium Stage last night.
