This German group delivers steel drum covers of Mary J. Blige, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr and more. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band Travels Across Generations And Genres Back in the 1960s, steel pan albums from ...

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 ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Recognized as the pre-eminent steel band competition in the world, Panorama is an annual Carnival music competition open to both conventional and single pan steel bands in ...

The Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago took an everyday, insignificant oil barrel and made extraordinary music come from it. Then pianist Liberace asked the Trinidad Tripoli Steelband to tour ...

If countries had national instruments, then the steelpan would be Trinidad's. In an island nation of just 1.5 million people, there are about 70 steel bands registered to compete in the annual ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The steelpan, a percussion instrument created in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939, is making a comeback as a new generation embraces its bright, melodious sound on stage and on ...

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 ...

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 ...