A visit to Panyard Inc., one of the Kenmore neighborhood's burgeoning music businesses, is as much a lesson in the history of steel pan drums as a look inside the Akron company. Owner Ron Kerns is a ...

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 ...

The traditional method of manufacturing the steel-pan included 'dishing out' a bowl from a 55 gallon oil drum and hammering out the notes. Notes are then marked and grooved out. To make a steel-pan ...

Greenwich native Vicky Linville is a woman of many interests. She has raised a family, become a consummate fly fisherman and is an avid gardener of exotic plants. But the list doesn't end there.

After two years of pandemic cancellations, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival returned this July, and the event — which is the largest of its kind in Canada — has its grand finale this weekend. For many ...

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 ...