Tuesday's Google Doodle celebrates the steelpan, a percussion instrument made of 55-gallon steel cargo drums that produces music by striking different size dents in the drum's convex belly with ...

On this day, 26 July, in 1951, the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) performed at the Festival of Britain, and in doing so introduced the steelpan and a new music genre to the world.

The Brooklyn Museum came alive on Saturday night with sounds straight from Trinidad and Tobago. Roughly a dozen, mostly local bands took part in the Brooklyn Panorama Competition - including Steel ...

June 18 (UPI) --A musician from Trinidad and Tobago broke a Guinness World Record by playing steelpan for 31 consecutive hours. Joshua Regrello, 28, started playing steelpan, also known as a steel ...

Trinidad and Tobago's Joshua Regrello holds the Guinness World Record for the longest marathon playing steel drums. This was confirmed yesterday on the Guinness World Records website. “The ...

Speaking of found sounds like, I think the roots of this, you know, I'm not a historian anything, but I you know, I know that all these kind of things kind of grew into this and there being a ton ...

The steelpan is a phenomenon since it is music created by recycling or repurposing steel drums. The instrument itself is circular in shape. To the creative, the circle is nurturing and self ...

Imagine, as a kid, receiving the Guinness Book of World Records every year for Christmas — and then growing up to actually be in it. That's exactly what happened to Trinbagonian steel pan musician ...

oft steel pan music) - My name is Becky Bass and this is my take on the steel pan. (soft steel pan music) I'm a musician. (upbeat rock music) I've been singing and playing the steel pan since I ...

Taking a chance on steel pans. The story of Klahowya's steel pan band — the largest in Washington State — begins and ends with Lee. Compared to many musicians, Lee got into music late in life.