Lila Sheon, 14, lives in a diverse part of Washington, D.C., called Petworth. Her contribution to our Summer Sounds series comes from a steel drum band practicing on the street. THE JAMIES: (Singing) ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The Virginia International PANFestival will bring a celebration of steel drum sounds to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront this weekend. The event will take place Friday and Saturday ...

Thundering. Clangoring. The air around me throbs and shatters with the sound of steel pans. I'm in Queen's Park Savannah, a big patch of green in the heart of Port of Spain, capital of the island ...

The sound of steel drums conjures images of an ocean, a beach and a tropical drink in hand. What surrounds this particular steel-drum band, however, are tubas, music stands and the grand piano that ...

If you close your eyes, you might think you're on a beach in the Caribbean, so mellow are the mesmerizing sounds of steel pan drums that fill the band room at UND's Hughes Fine Arts Center. It's ...

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 ...

Let the Music Talk looks at steel pan drums, a sound that is synonymous with Caribbean carnival music. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast on 24 June 1981. 1981: The carnival sound of steel pan drums.

As a young drummer fine tuning his skills in Trinidad, Salmon Cupid always wondered why the steel pan wasn’t electrified as the guitar and piano were. “I didn’t know how to do it. I just knew I had a ...