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.

Michael Amos beats on the large steel round barrels. He is not alone as fellow student percussionists also take part in the Mentor High School Fine Arts Center. Michael and the others were being ...

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 ...

Hawaiian shirts, a red double-decker trailer and of course steel drums was the scene at Eighth Street and College Avenue Saturday afternoon. Bringing up the rear of Tulip Times festival's Muziekparade ...

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 ...

What started as a five-piece steel drum band has morphed into four bands with 80 members under the direction of Canal Winchester High School music director Todd Phillips. "We have had the group since ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The ConverZatons program will focus on the cultural importance of the drums to the ...

IOWA CITY - When her kids attended West High, Barbara DeGroot discovered the school's steel drum band. From that day forward, every time she saw Ginny Armstrong, the band's instructor, DeGroot would ...