In 2010, McLerran teamed up with Jazz at Lincoln Center and joined the Rhythm Road taking a quartet featuring David Berntson on harmonica, Robbie Mack on bass and drummer Ron McRorey on a tour of the Middle East visiting Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman just weeks before the onset of the Arab Spring later that same year.

They played blues songs from the masters; Big Bill Broonzy, Skip James, Tampa Red, Mississippi John Hurt and many others.

The band then traveled to Kuwait and finished the 5-week tour in Muscat, Oman with a concert at the Crown Plaza Hotel.

[7] McLerran continues to travel for the State Department as a musical ambassador presenting educational and cultural exchange missions to the masses.

[12] McLerran continues to perform at festivals, concerts and clubs across the country and around the world as a solo act and with his band.