At his Detroit studio, Caribbean Mardi Gras Productions, Ralph Taylor has cleared away the giant Carnival costumes he designs and dusted off a dozen sets of steel drums he’d had in storage for years.

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 ...

All that was missing was the beach and ocean waves as the sound of steel drums made the Catalina Foothills High School stadium feel like a tropical Caribbean night. More than 150 percussionists and ...

LANSDALE —Thanks to the Brittany Pointe Panhandlers, the signature steel pan rhythms of the Caribbean have become a familiar soundscape at one Lansdale retirement community. In fact, the Panhandlers ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. 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. But now I have ...

Jeff Young of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports that West Virginia is the unlikely home of the father of the steel drum, Ellie Mannette. Known as the Stradivari of Steel, Mannette has lived 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 ...

Jim MacKay uses his hands a lot. He’s a mechanic, but thought he’d have to give it up, after a case of tennis elbow caused excruciating pain in both of his forearms. He decided to try a new form of ...

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