Young people are being encouraged to take up the traditional art of playing the steel pan musical instrument. CultureMix Art, ...
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson MUSICAL snobbery has often consigned the beauty and melodism of steel pan as a lower ...
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 ...
Tuesday's Google Doodle honors the steelpan, the national instrument of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The steelpan is a 55-gallon steel freight drum-based percussion instrument, which was ...
The Englert Theatre opened its doors to welcome the public for the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra concert on Friday. The audience took their seats before a stage bathed in neon shades of pink and blue ...
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 ...
A new animation, served to millions today on Google’s homepage, tells the fascinating history of a great percussion instrument – the steelpan. Today, Google has published a new Doodle (watch above) in ...