This German group delivers steel drum covers of Mary J. Blige, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr and more. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band Travels Across Generations And Genres Back in the 1960s, steel pan albums from ...

For several months I have been trying to find out about a steel band festival in Jamaica. Nobody seems to understand anything about it. I went to several travel agencies and even a travel show at the ...

If countries had national instruments, then the steelpan would be Trinidad's. In an island nation of just 1.5 million people, there are about 70 steel bands registered to compete in the annual ...

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 ...

Revered pannist, composer and steelpan arranger Earl Rodney died on December 3, 2023 — and even as news of his passing sent the local musical fraternity into mourning, he is being remembered as a ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...