Sometimes, when he’s on the bandstand, his body jerking and his face locked in a grimace as he tucks into a solo that sails from one key change to the next, the jazz steel pan player Victor ...

Young Acolytes Symphonic Steel Orchestra members (l. to r.) Onika Dover, 18, Ossafo Bishop,22, and Jannkheri Duke,16, practice in the basement of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church.

Sometimes, when he’s on the bandstand, his body jerking and his face locked in a grimace as he tucks into a solo that sails from one key change to the next, the jazz steel pan player Victor ...

University of Minnesota senior Bradford Olson from Minnetonka plays bass pans or steel drums for the U's "Panic" steel band, Dec. 9, 2014. Walk the halls at the University of Minnesota School of ...

In a London quartet with pianist Sam Leak, drummer Ebow Mensah and Mirko Scarcia on bass, this Caribbean pan sunrise was full of serene, lucid melody and innovative, rampant improvisation. Mensah’s ...

A: “There are four different types of steel pan instruments in the band. There’s the tenor, which is the highest one, then there are the doubles, then triples. And then there’s the six bass.

Working-class youths invented the steel drum in the 1930s by banging dents in the tops of discarded oil drums to create notes. Today, steelpan is Trinidad's de facto national instrument.

Musician Robert Symons has been delighting shoppers at The Clocktower Mall in Dockyard with the soothing sounds of his steel pan. A seasoned professional musician since 1976, Symons has been a ...

Mick Hutton and Friends, The Bell, Clare, Sunday, July 27. FOR a good ten years Mick Hutton built up a tremendous reputation as a superb double bass… ...