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 ...

At some point in the 1960s, steel drum (a.k.a. pan) music became the Caribbean equivalent of cheesy Vegas lounge tunes: something only an ill-dressed tourist might fancy during a cruise ship port o' ...

As a youth, Othello Molineaux played piano. By age eleven, he had given his heart to the steel drum, then the newest and most innovative of instruments. He learned to tune the old oil drums, and ...

Covering 50 Cent, Cat Stevens, Faith Evans, and more on steelpan drums should not sound this gimmick-less. It helps that the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is, first and foremost, a strong funk ensemble.

Last month James Monroe High School welcomed a very special guest indeed, legendary Antiguan steel drummer Veron Henry. Fifteen years ago, Henry brought his world renowned Hell’s Gate Steel Orchestra ...

West Virginia University is providing a new take on what you might consider folklife in Appalachia. Steel drums are not usually associated with West Virginia, but rather with tropical Trinidad, ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) – In today’s Community Chat, WAVY Digital Desk Host Sarah Goode spoke with directors from the Rhythm Project. Watch the full Community Chat in the video player on this page.

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.

Students of the Music Department as well as a few members of the community formed a steel drum band and performed what they had been practicing since the beginning of the semester. The show that took ...

When keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin and Wood) produced the Campbell Brothers' Can You Feel It? (Ropeadope, 2005), he helped bring deserved attention to the woefully unrecognized field of ...

Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...