This month, Blacksburg’s steel drum band, the PanJammers ... But for many, this is their first instrument. Most cannot read music. Though the pan is difficult to master, beginners can often ...

Andy Akiho and Scott Yoo play his piece for steelpan drum and violin ... are here so you get about two and a third octaves on this instrument. So when you write for cello for the first time ...

steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. It is played using a pair of straight ...

On this day, 26 July, in 1951, the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra ... Then came a succession of bans on the percussion instrument. In 1877, government officials feared that ...

The Electric City Steel Drum Project was awarded a $3,000 grant from the Robert H. Spitz Foundation, administered by the Scranton Area Community Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to provide ...

This is the moment a musician played the world's most dangerous drum solo inside a "globe of death" as two motorbikes narrowly zoomed past his head at 40mph. Drummer Brandon Ross Macpherson is said to ...

More than 150 percussionists and steel-drum players took part in the Arizona Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society - or AZPAS - Mass Steel Band 2010 performance on Friday. The AZPAS event kicked ...

AMBRIDGE ― The Ambridge Area High School Steel Drum Band celebrates 35 years of making joyful music with a special show Thursday joined on stage by international musician, composer and educator ...