Glen Velez, widely recognized as the world's leading authority and performer on the frame drum. On record and in performance, Handance mesmerizes listeners with its virtuosic playing that blends styles from Egypt, South India, Central Asia and the Middle East into an intricate polyrhythmic exploration of the power of group drumming.

In concert, Handance creates a vibrant musical experience as the performers, Glen, Shane Shanahan and Yousif Sheronick use their hands to strike, tap, snap, rub and brush sound from their instruments, while accompanied by some of the leading melodic soloists of our time.
The instruments of Handance are as diverse as the groups influences. They include the Tar, frame drum from North Africa, the fish-skinned Riq, tambourine from Egypt, and the large, hoop-shaped Bodhran from Ireland, to name a few.
Over the matrix of rhythmic interplay which the drummers produce, a spell of melodic invention is cast by such world renown soloists as, Sonny Fortune (Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, George Benson), Steve Gorn (Paul Simon, Jack DeJohnette), Howard Levy (Bela Fleck, Kenny Loggins, Dolly Parton), V.K. Raman, renowned South Indian flutist and extraordinary newcomer, rhythm vocalist Lori Cotler.
Handance’s CD, “Rhythmcolor Exotica” (Ellipsis Arts) was featured in Billboard, described as, “ Weaving together colorfully diverse musical fabrics...a work of poetic beauty.”

The Handance sound is at once energizing and hypnotizing. You are held and moved to dance by the music's central pulse while being carried away by melodic improvisations and Velez’s mystical overtone singing. The prolonged ringing and multiple overtones of the groups frame drums make for a ecstatic sound rarely heard in percussion music.
“East-West hybrids that combine a Western sense of proportion with non-Westerrn improvisations and meditative depths -- music that earns a place between two worlds.” - The New York Times