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 ...

At 7 p.m. on May 9, the Granville Steel Drum Program will host Liam Teague for a performance at Granville High School that will also feature performances by the various Granville steel drum bands.

In front of me, yet another steel-pan orchestra makes its own riot of sound as it competes with its rivals. We all are backstage at the finals of Trinidad’s top steel-band competition, Panorama ...

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 ...

Steel drums originated in Trinidad during the 1930s, when the locals discovered they could produce different tones by hammering dents into 55-gallon oil drums, which were plentiful, thanks to U.S ...

He just happens to be doing it on a steel pan,” says Locke, 57, perhaps the foremost vibraphonist of his generation, who used Provost on his 2015 album, “Love is a Pendulum.” ...

Instead, Smales grooves along with them, playing on the steel pans or joining the percussion section. "There's a lot more student input," said senior Ella Egan, 17, who plays the tenor/lead pan in ...

Musician Andy Narell has made his name by coaxing tunes out of sawed-off oil barrels. He's one of the best-known performers on the steel pan, also known as the steel drum.

In front of me, yet another steel-pan orchestra makes its own riot of sound as it competes with its rivals. We all are backstage at the finals of Trinidad’s top steel-band competition, Panorama ...