For the past few years, we've seen the same musician at NewsChannel 5's bell ringing events. He played the Caribbean steel ...

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 ...

Miles away from the Caribbean, Elton Williams teaches lessons on the steel drum at the Caribbean Information Music Center in Hampton. Williams does not play music to win championships. He does not ...

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 ...

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 ...