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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Virginia International PANFestival will bring a celebration of steel drum sounds to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront this weekend. The event will take place Friday and Saturday ...

A walk through the hallways at Matanzas High School can turn into an auditory jaunt to Trinidad and Tobago. That's thanks to Blue Steel, the school's steel pan music program. "Even if I'm having a bad ...

LANSDALE —Thanks to the Brittany Pointe Panhandlers, the signature steel pan rhythms of the Caribbean have become a familiar soundscape at one Lansdale retirement community. In fact, the Panhandlers ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a young drummer fine tuning his skills in Trinidad, Salmon Cupid always wondered why the steel pan wasn’t electrified as the guitar and piano were. “I didn’t know how to do it. I just knew I had a ...

Let the Music Talk looks at steel pan drums, a sound that is synonymous with Caribbean carnival music. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 24 June 1981. 1981: The carnival sound of steel pan drums.