For years, the same steel drum musician has played at NewsChannel 5 bell ringings. His Caribbean rhythms stood out. We were ...

The Carpenter Performing Arts Center stage came alive Sunday as the Cal State Long Beach steel drum orchestra delivered its annual recital, “Caribbean Extravaganza,” and “Massive Band 2014,” which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Go to Amesbury Middle School after school and you might find yourself dreaming of swaying palm trees on a Caribbean island. It’s that calypso music you’re hearing, the music of steel drums. A new ...

A profound and deep sense of loss overcame me, and I have no doubt enveloped many throughout the Caribbean following the death of Rex Nettleford. What everyone understands is that he was a Caribbean ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about drums. There are drums that talk, that can imitate speech. There are drums grouped in families for the purpose of talking to each other. Tapping a drum with ...

THIS commentary is being written in the first blush of news that Rex Nettleford has died. I was overcome by a profound and deep sense of loss, which I have no doubt enveloped many throughout the ...