The Caribbean is more than a tourist destination, and East Tennesseans of Caribbean descent want to share that. To that end, they’ll be celebrating Caribbean Heritage Month with “Steelpan in the Park” ...

Long Island’s own Steel Impressions Steel Band is putting a spotlight on Caribbean culture through music. The band says they are the only family steel band on Long Island. O.V. Solomon came to the U.S ...

CLERMONT, Fla. – The Clermont Caribbean Jerk Festival is back and better than ever. The free festival begins Saturday at 12 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. at Waterfront Park in Clermont. There will also be ...

On a recent morning at Klahowya Secondary School, the seventh and eighth graders in John Lee's third-period steel pan class launched into the bossa nova strains of "Quando quando quando." Students ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Through photos, recordings, videos, and playing instruments, students will explore the steel band tradition of Trinidad and Tobago. In the first ...

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 ...

Go anywhere in the United States and odds are somebody, somewhere is doing a celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. The art form that was born in the Bronx, however, is not the only ...

San Jacinto College (SJC) Central’s steel drum band and choir will travel to Virginia Beach to perform at the Panorama Caribbean Music Festival on May 7. “This is huge for San Jacinto College, because ...

Santa Maria (Pleneros Poncen.o) -- Grenadine jump-up (The Federators Steel Band) -- El canon (Colon Sisters and Paquito Lopez Cruz Ensemble) -- Badjan mambo (The Federators Steel Band) -- Poque te ...