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 ...

For their collaborative project Jus Now, U.K. producer Sam Interface and Trinidad producer LAZAbeam find singularity in mashing up two distinct genres that share more common ground than you'd think: ...

The steel drum, also called the steel pan or just pan, is surely one of the most unusual and versatile musical instruments in the world. The clangy sound of a steel band performing during carnival in ...

Some of the top drummers in Trinidad and Tobago will join forces for The Birth of Skin and Steel — Roots Rhythms and Melodies, at Kaiso Blues Café tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 10.p.m. The drum fusion will ...

Steel pan, born on the island of Trinidad in the late 1930s, began as an outlaw instrument, hammered from milk tins, biscuit boxes, paint cans, brake drums, garbage cans -- and later, the oil barrels ...

July 26 (UPI) --Google unveiled a new Doodle on its home page Tuesday, illustrated by Trinidadian artist Nicholas Huggins, that celebrates the history of the steelpan drum. The instrument has its ...

Just like the emergence of the tango in South America in the 1890s, or the explosion of rock and roll in the US in the 1950s, Trinidad and Tobago’s steelpan bands have a rich and compelling story, ...

At the end of the concert it was clear that the combination of the Japanese drum (taiko) and Trinidad pan are two musical instruments that could bring east and west to the centre of world musical ...