The result of hitting steel to create sweet dulcet tones are a part of the Caribbean’s musical DNA. It’s the steel drum (aka “steel pan”) with its warm sounds now firmly associated with the warm ...

MESQUITE - A North Texas school system has a bright idea to make academics more diverse. Mesquite ISD is offering a steel drum class as an elective for the first time this year. It may sound like ...

Kathy Clarke still remembers, as a small girl, hearing the steel drums banging in Trinidad and Tobago as rival steel bands paraded through the village. This was the country’s Carnival festival in Port ...

Bay City may be a long way from the currents of the Caribbean, but some talented local drummers are bringing a tropical air to the Tri-Cities. The Bay City Steelers, made up of students from Bay City ...

Enrique Salinas shares the story of how he came to the U.S. and forged a career in broadcasting that's lasted more than two decades. Catch Enrique's reporting on FOX Carolina News and Telemundo ...

A Miramar class is exposing Caribbean steel pan drums to a new audience. Playing steel pan drums is second nature for instructor George Goddard, a musician originally from Trinidad. Goddard was ...

Mention steel drums, and most conjure up an image of a marching band with its booming bass. But these steel drums are melodic. Pedro Orey, director of Bethune-Cookman College’s Steel Drum Orchestra, ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY - When her kids attended West High, Barbara DeGroot discovered the school's steel drum band. From that day forward, every time she saw Ginny Armstrong, the band's instructor, DeGroot would ...

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.