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 ...

WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms MUSICAL snobbery has often consigned the beauty and melodism of steel pan as a lower form of musical instrument, ...

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?

Tuesday's Google Doodle honors the steelpan, the national instrument of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The steelpan is a 55-gallon steel freight drum-based percussion instrument, which was ...

A new animation, served to millions today on Google’s homepage, tells the fascinating history of a great percussion instrument – the steelpan. Today, Google has published a new Doodle (watch above) in ...

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 ...