After June’s rainout, Music in the Park returned to Surfside Park on July 10 with a picture-perfect summer evening. The Pan-handlers Steel Drum Band entertained the crowd with lively instrumental ...

What started as a five-piece steel drum band has morphed into four bands with 80 members under the direction of Canal Winchester High School music director Todd Phillips.

Video game music via the steel drum has truly changed my life. I’m not the kind of person who enjoys covers of video game songs. The Sonic The Hedgehog theme is just fine the way it is, thank you.

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 ...

Steel drum music has spread across the globe from Trinidad to the University of Minnesota, where a teacher and her students are bringing the Caribbean sound to the frozen north.

But a steel drum that sounds just right can be hard to find in the U.S. So he found a book on how to build them. How to take 55 gallon barrels and turn them into instruments.

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.

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 ...

Amid the electronica of 20th Century music one new instrument stands out for its simplicity - the steel pan, made out of metal waste.