The steel drum, also called the steel pan or just pan, is surely one of the most unusual and versatile musical instruments in the world. The clangy sound of a steel band performing during carnival in ...

The sound of steel drums conjures images of an ocean, a beach and a tropical drink in hand. What surrounds this particular steel-drum band, however, are tubas, music stands and the grand piano that ...

The IJ Lobby Lounge went on location for the first time to record our largest and most exotic group yet — Drums of Fire, the Davidson Middle School Steel Pan Band. More than 20 students from the San ...

Go to Amesbury Middle School after school and you might find yourself dreaming of swaying palm trees on a Caribbean island. It’s that calypso music you’re hearing, the music of steel drums. A new ...

Achievement First Brooklyn High School's steel pan band has become a symbol of unity and cultural representation for its students in just two short years. Pulse is the first high school steel pan band ...

Steelpannist Tracy Thornton leads Canon-McMillan High School pan and percussion Ensemble through rehearsal for its "Pan-Demonium" concert scheduled for Wednesday at the high school. [Karen Mansfield] ...

At his Detroit studio, Caribbean Mardi Gras Productions, Ralph Taylor has cleared away the giant Carnival costumes he designs and dusted off a dozen sets of steel drums he’d had in storage for years.

A visit to Panyard Inc., one of the Kenmore neighborhood's burgeoning music businesses, is as much a lesson in the history of steel pan drums as a look inside the Akron company. Owner Ron Kerns is a ...

Most parents know that the best way to get people to do something is to tell them not to do it. Folks who lead countries should know that as well. So when the rulers in his native Guyana banned the ...

Five years ago, Josh Quillen, a member of Sō Percussion, a Brooklyn-based music ensemble, spoke with a maker and tuner of steel drums named Kyle Dunleavy about building a potentially unworkable design ...