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 ...

Five years ago, Josh Quillen, a member of Sō Percussion, a Brooklyn-based music ensemble, spoke with a maker and tuner of steel drums named Kyle Dunleavy about building a potentially unworkable design ...

As a youth, Othello Molineaux played piano. By age eleven, he had given his heart to the steel drum, then the newest and most innovative of instruments. He learned to tune the old oil drums, and ...

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.

West Virginia University is providing a new take on what you might consider folklife in Appalachia. Steel drums are not usually associated with West Virginia, but rather with tropical Trinidad, ...

Ellie Mannette, the father of the modern steel drum, has died at 90. While most people only hear a racket if you bang on a metal trash can, Mannette heard so much more. ELLIE MANNETTE: I listened to ...

Residents at Coppice Court care home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, were treated to a lively musical experience when steel drum player Theo visited to perform for them.