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Drummers perform during Carnival in Trinidad. Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the ...

With the red, white and black flying proudly, the steelpan notes of the RSI steel orchestra alternating with soca selections from the DJ, the dulcet notes of Trini Velia Espeut singing both ...

"We have—if you count just large steel bands—we have about 15." Pan's history began in the late 1930s, when American military bases in Trinidad needed oil and empty oil drums littered the streets.

Only rogues and bad boys played pan. You could not be seen near a steel pan.” Bishop said he was about 10 years old when he saw his first pan band, watching as they were being played in a back yard.

The Festival of Britain in 1951 saw the first steelband performance in the UK, the Trinidad All Steel pan percussion orchestra. The culture has been kept alive here by the Windrush generation, and ...

Samaroo was also hailed as a “giant”, a “legend” and a “musical icon”. A member of one of Trinidad and Tobago's great steel pan families, Barry Manette, recalled meeting Samaroo for the first time: I ...

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.