A couple years after Joel Smales heard Ithaca College's Steel Band, he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble. "Everybody loved it," said Smales, a ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Nov. 16, the Susquehanna Symphony Society will present a 3 p.m. performance of The Juiceblenders, the Binghamton ...

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.

DOVER — The Dover High School Steel Drum Band invites the public to break up the winter blues with the sounds of the Caribbean when the group holds its annual concert, “Pantasia,” on Feb. 20. The show ...

Greenwich native Vicky Linville is a woman of many interests. She has raised a family, become a consummate fly fisherman and is an avid gardener of exotic plants. But the list doesn't end there.

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 ...

There’s a short list of YouTube videos I can’t get enough of: Tay Zonday singing “Chocolate Rain,” Dramatic Chipmunk, Sneezing Panda, Otters holding hands, or this skateboarding dog named Tillman. I ...