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 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 ...

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] ...

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Cruise ship work is a special type of education for a performer. The passengers are quite literally a captive audience. Where ...

Jonathan Scales has climbed many mountainous obstacles to become the steel pan composer he is today. An unconventional choice on an unconventional instrument — how could he know it would even work?

The Englert Theatre opened its doors to welcome the public for the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra concert on Friday. The audience took their seats before a stage bathed in neon shades of pink and blue ...

Despers USA practices on a big parking lot off Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Band members start wandering in around 6 or 7 p.m. and slowly take their places behind racks of steel drums. Like a ...

Composer Andy Akiho explains to host Scott Yoo why he loves the steelpan drum. Both then play his piece “Deciduous.” Speaking of found sounds like, I think the roots of this, you know, I'm not a ...

Flash in the Pans, a steel drum band based on the Blue Hill Peninsula, is anything but a flash in the pan. The community ...