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 ...

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 ...

GRANVILLE - The Granville Music Boosters have announced a couple of special, upcoming steel drum band events. First up, is a concert: “We always have spring concert, but the reason this one is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Hampton Roads organization is working to bring music to underserved communities. The Mosaic Steel Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) organization that teaches adults and kids how to play ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The sounds of summer lit up Bangor on Thursday, with steel drum band Panstorm’s free concert at Cascade Park. The community band was founded 10 years ago by John Kollman, a ...