The Petoskey Steel Drum Band has been rocking through their holiday tour, stopping at places like Lansing all the way to Harbor Springs. This year the band has 36 students ranging from ninth to ...

MESQUITE - A North Texas school system has a bright idea to make academics more diverse. Mesquite ISD is offering a steel drum class as an elective for the first time this year. It may sound like ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – If golf’s not your thing, the other big event happening is Rochester’s Lilac Festival. You can catch free entertainment every day from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 at night! Tuesday some ...

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 ...

DOVER — The Dover High School Steel Drum Band invites the public to break up the winter blues with the sounds of the Caribbean when the group holds its annual concert, “Pantasia,” on Feb. 20. The show ...

LANSDALE —Thanks to the Brittany Pointe Panhandlers, the signature steel pan rhythms of the Caribbean have become a familiar soundscape at one Lansdale retirement community. In fact, the Panhandlers ...

PANgea, Lincoln Public Schools’ steel drum band, will perform at noon Friday, April 5, at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St. Founded in 2003 by LPS music educator John Scofield, PANgea is ...

It started in 2000 with a couple of bands playing a unique brand of music in front of a handful of friends and relatives. Now, fast forward a quarter of a century later, and the St. Louis High School ...

For almost as far back as she can remember, Marta Wetzel had a passion for music. Born to a farming family in Pitsburg, Ohio, she first developed an interest in playing drums as a 5th grader at ...

PETOSKEY — The tropical sounds synonymous with steel drum music may elicit thoughts of a nice warm beach, sand between your toes or palm trees swaying in the breeze — probably not a bitter northern ...