Glen Velez has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 20 episodes and was first played on 16 December 2016.

Glen Velez (born in Dallas in 1949) is a four-time Grammy winning American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is considered as largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States and around the world.

His teaching and performances inspired the Remo Drum Co. in 1983 to develop a line of frame drums called the Glen Velez Signature Series. The Cooperman Drum Co. introduced a hand made Signature Series Glen Velez Tambourine and…