Composer Andy Akiho explains to host Scott Yoo why he loves the steelpan drum. Both then play his piece “Deciduous.” Speaking of found sounds like, I think the roots of this, you know, I'm not a ...

Despers USA practices on a big parking lot off Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y. Band members start wandering in around 6 or 7 p.m. and slowly take their places behind racks of steel drums. Like a ...

Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller teams up with drumming expert and band leader Michelle Huggins-Watts in Trinidad to work together for the BBC's Collaboration Culture project. Together they ...

EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) — In just days, steel pan bands in the city will face off in the annual New York Panorama competition — a cherished tradition leading up to the annual West Indian ...

Most parents know that the best way to get people to do something is to tell them not to do it. Folks who lead countries should know that as well. So when the rulers in his native Guyana banned the ...

Amid the electronica of 20th Century music one new instrument stands out for its simplicity. The steel pan, possibly the only instrument made out of industrial waste, has become an icon of Trinidadian ...

The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. It is ...

The Pan Jam Steel Drum Festival is all about atmosphere. The annual celebration in the Kemah Lighthouse District weds the sounds of steel drums with exotic and familiar tastes, playing children and an ...

It’s Christmas at The Repair Shop, and the team face four festive fixes, including a mechanical cake, a record player, paper Santas and a steel-pan drum. Show more It’s Christmas at The Repair Shop, ...