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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

All that was missing was the beach and ocean waves as the sound of steel drums made the Catalina Foothills High School stadium feel like a tropical Caribbean night. More than 150 percussionists and ...

CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-0839 contains steel band rehearsals of three selections. Pete Seeger is heard directing the rehearsal, which is presumably in preparation for recording The Folkways record, "The ...

Vince Stout has been fascinated with steel drums ever since he was a child. "It all started when I was watching Sesame Street," Mr. Stout said from the garage of his Wilmington home that houses his ...

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