Career
He plays a wide variety of traditional percussion instruments. McDonald has a nearly 50 year history of recording and performing with a wide variety of artists, such as Gil Scott-Heron, and Taj Mahal. In 2009, McDonald released his first solo album "Drumquestra" on which he united many of his former band mates from across his career, in an orchestra of drummers, including Sly Dunbar, Uziah Thompson a.k.a.
Drumquestra also featured former frontmen from bands Larry performed and recorded with, including Toots Hibbert, Bob Andy, Mutabaruka, Stranger Cole and Dollarman.
The album was recorded at a live session at Harry J Studios in Kingston Jamaica by Steel Pulse producer Sidney Mills for Malik First Rate (at Lloyd's) Nasir"s MCPR label in the United Arab Emirates, who released the album in 2009. Master's of City and Regional Planning also released two singles off the album the same year, "Head Over Heels" Featuring Dollarman and Sly Dunbar and "Secretariat The Children Free" Featuring Toots Hibbert, the latter of which was subsequently re-mixed for dance-floors by Lenny B. On Friday 22 March 2013 Larry took to the stage at The United Nations General Assembly in New York City with Steel Pulse as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s International Slavery Remembrance Day event.
