Mini Biography:

Frank Menusan is a retired special education teacher with a Masters degree from New York University. He has had 25 years of experience with the New York City Department of Education. In addition, he is a musician, flute maker, artist, writer, storyteller and lecturer. Mr. Menusan is of Muskogee (Creek) heritage. Mr. Menusan has performed solo and with various groups from many diverse cultures on an amazing variety of Native American and ethnic world instruments. He has published several articles on Native American music in Cobblestones (1993) and Fiddlesticks (1992), and a curriculum on Native American Music for the New Orchestra of Westchester Education Program (Westchester County, N. Y. 1992-1993).

Mini Biography:

Mr. Menusan does workshops for various organizations. He toured the United States in 1988 with Riyuchi Sakamoto’s NeoGeo group and has worked on many Soundtracks, including Philip Glass’ soundtrack for “Powaqaatsi” (1988). He has assisted in producing a concert with Paul Winter and R. Carlos Nakai at St. John the Divine Cathedral, N. Y. C. 1993. Mr. Menusan was a consultant for the Cry of the Earth at the United Nations (1993), bringing indigenous leaders from all over the Western Hemisphere to speak about their ancient prophecies concerning the fate of the earth’s future.