Young people are being encouraged to take up the traditional art of playing the steel pan musical instrument. CultureMix Arts ...

On the island of Trinidad, a once-humble instrument has inspired an academic specialty Satanand Sharma’s voice never rises as he gently reprimands a pair of students, guiding and cajoling them through ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Steel drum bands from throughout Maine and New Hampshire plan to gather to ...

oft steel pan music) - My name is Becky Bass and this is my take on the steel pan. (soft steel pan music) I'm a musician. (upbeat rock music) I've been singing and playing the steel pan since I was ...

Birch Creek has advanced music students perform alongside faculty members in Percussion/Steel Pan/World Music, Symphony and ...

During last month’s funeral service for Trinidad and Tobago-born steelpan musician Reynold Juan “Caldera” Caraballo at Brooklyn’s St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise Parish, longtime West Indian American ...

The steel pan’s cheerful yet melancholic chime has mesmerized Mike Kernahan since he was a young boy growing up near the oil fields of Palo Seco, Trinidad. It is in his blood, he says – his two uncles ...

Many Brooklyn residents say they're starting to hear Soca and Dancehall music blasting from cars or see Caribbean flags proudly hung. In Canarsie, the Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra is preparing to ...

A deft musician and beloved mentor, he helped keep steel-pan music — his bridge to the Caribbean — a vibrant part of New York life. He had the coronavirus. By Sam Dolnick This obituary is part of a ...

A steel pan musician whose career included a favourite Bermudian act brought music to the island from his native Trinidad in the 1960s, and never left. Carl Rodney unleashed his skills with the ...

DE KALB, Ill. (AP) -- Cliff Alexis grasps a wooden beam by two small handlebars sticking out of the sides, raises the pogo-stick-shaped piece of wood above a 55-gallon oil barrel and drives the bottom ...