A couple years after Joel Smales heard Ithaca College's Steel Band, he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble. "Everybody loved it," said Smales, a ...
The Caribbean Steel Drum band performed on the Peace Quad on Thursday, in an evening featuring musical talent and a welcoming ...
The Petoskey Steel Drum Band has been rocking through their holiday tour, stopping at places like Lansing all the way to Harbor Springs. This year the band has 36 students ranging from ninth to ...
A Miramar class is exposing Caribbean steel pan drums to a new audience. Playing steel pan drums is second nature for instructor George Goddard, a musician originally from Trinidad. Goddard was ...
The result of hitting steel to create sweet dulcet tones are a part of the Caribbean’s musical DNA. It’s the steel drum (aka “steel pan”) with its warm sounds now firmly associated with the warm ...
Kathy Clarke still remembers, as a small girl, hearing the steel drums banging in Trinidad and Tobago as rival steel bands paraded through the village. This was the country’s Carnival festival in Port ...
That was how Jeremy Caesar, 23, of Beltsville described what it takes to become a good musician, and that was him this past Saturday night at the annual Christmas concert of First United Methodist ...
DOVER — The Dover High School Steel Drum Band invites the public to break up the winter blues with the sounds of the Caribbean when the group holds its annual concert, “Pantasia,” on Feb. 20. The show ...
Steel drums turn out to vibrate with a wide range of subtle resonances that are captivating not only listeners but physicists who investigate how musical instruments cast their distinctive spells.