Music at The Grove
Music at the Grove
Music at the Grove is rotation of internationally renowned griots, musicians who have graced the world with performances, lectures, broadcasts and spiritual guidance activities. Guest hosts sharing tailored programs with the Murray Grove Community include: Frank Colón, Gabe Gonzales and J.D. Parran. Additional interviews with luminaries including Dr. George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic will also be featured on Music at the Grove. Stay tuned to learn more about the MG Store, where you will be able to purchase music created and/or produced by the presenters.
Frank Colón is a specialist in Latin-Caribbean, Brazilian and Asian percussion instruments including congas, bongos, timbales, bata drums, shekere, cuica, berimbau, and tabla drums, among others. Frank began his musical career with a five-year stint in Julito Collazo’s Afro-Cuban drum ensemble. On NYC’s jazz scene, he quickly went on to perform and record with Walter Booker, Chet Baker, Jaco Pastorious, Michel Camilo, African master drummer Babatunde Olatunji, Gato Barbieri, Harry Belafonte, Weather Report, Tania Maria, Flora Purim, and Airto Moreira.
In Brazil, Frank has also performed and/or recorded with Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Eddie Motta, João Bosco, Chico Buarque, Wagner Tiso, Ney Matogrosso, Elba Ramalho, Marina Lima, RPM, João Donato, Toninho Horta, Roberto Menescal, and Marcos Valle.
As a sideman with the Manhattan Transfer for 12 years, he participated on two of their Grammy-winning records and was voted in 1988 as one of the top three “Most Influential Percussionists of the Year” in the Modern Drummer Magazine poll!
Join Frank as he shares his insights on his spiritual journey of Techno-Primal Living, in this exclusive Murray Grove Online VLOG, which is followed by a music video of “Whales of Bahia” from his award winning Latin Lounge CD:
Frank Colon: Techno-Primal Percussion Frank Colon: Techno-Primal living
Frank Colon: Converting PoisonFrank Colon: Cuica Introduction
