The spirit of Carnival can already be felt throughout the borough. Many Brooklyn residents say they're starting to hear Soca and Dancehall music blasting from cars or see Caribbean flags proudly hung.

During last month’s funeral service for Trinidad and Tobago-born steelpan musician Reynold Juan “Caldera” Caraballo at Brooklyn’s St. Francis of Assisi-St. Blaise Parish, longtime West Indian American ...

Flash in the Pans, a steel drum band based on the Blue Hill Peninsula, is anything but a flash in the pan. The community music group, one of the largest ...

AUGUSTA — Steel drum bands from throughout Maine and New Hampshire invite the public to come enjoy the music as the bands gather to perform and celebrate the unique sounds of the steel drum, also ...

On the island of Trinidad, a once-humble instrument has inspired an academic specialty Satanand Sharma’s voice never rises as he gently reprimands a pair of students, guiding and cajoling them through ...

On a dreary Sunday, the sounds echoing along the Bangor waterfront were tropical. The 33rd annual Pan New England Steel Band Festival brought the rhythms of the Caribbean to the Queen City, featuring ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Steel drum bands from throughout Maine and New Hampshire plan to gather to ...

Jonathan Scales has climbed many mountainous obstacles to become the steel pan composer he is today. An unconventional choice on an unconventional instrument — how could he know it would even work?

Dr Kim Johnson charts the evolution of steel-pan music in Trinidad. When teenage street gangs began knocking on hub caps, pan ...

Southbank Centre announced STEEL SCENES, a weekend festival uniting over 500 musicians and 25 steel bands to mark 75 years ...

oft steel pan music) - My name is Becky Bass and this is my take on the steel pan. (soft steel pan music) I'm a musician. (upbeat rock music) I've been singing and playing the steel pan since I was ...