On July 26, 1951, the steelpan was introduced to the world when the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) performed at the Festival of Britain, and today is often celebrated as the ...

I’m in the middle of a crush of fans who’ve come to help their favorite bands by “pushing pan.” Sets of steel drums sit on wheeled racks; fans and pannists together roll each band’s drum ...

Bamboo was originally used, but later metal objects and then from the late 1940s, 55-gallon oil drums, ... "On this day in 1951, the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra (TASPO) ...

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.

The steel drum musical instrument was first created in Trinidad, hammered from biscuit boxes, brake drums and oil barrels. One of the biggest "steel pan" bands of the 1960s was the Esso Trinidad ...

A Miramar class is exposing Caribbean steel pan drums to a new audience. Playing steel pan drums is second nature for instructor George Goddard, a musician originally from Trinidad. Goddard was sur… ...

On the tropical Caribbean island of Trinidad, 4,300 miles from Edmonds, revelers this week celebrate that raucous festival called Carnival.

Kalea Griffith, 23, of Hartford, is no stranger to the sound of steel drums. Her father, Kelvin Griffith, has made all the instruments for the Hartford Steel Symphony, an orchestra made up ...

Steel pan, born on the island of Trinidad in the late 1930s, began as an outlaw instrument, hammered from milk tins, biscuit boxes, paint cans, brake drums, garbage cans -- and later, the oil ...