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 ...

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 heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates steelpan music, and specifically the steelpan instrument. The percussion instrument was created by Trinbagonians (people from the Caribbean island country of Trinidad ...

Ellie Mannette, a Trinidadian musician known in the United States as the father of the modern steel drum, died Wednesday at a hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. He was 90. Ellie Mannette, a ...

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 ...

The Summer Music Series swings through the Mount Washington Valley this week to visit the only music shop in New Hampshire that builds steel drums, the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.

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 ...