In the middle of December in Ohio, the Caribbean-infused melodies filling the music room at Franklinton Preparatory Academy seemed misplaced. But for students enrolled in a steel-drum band class at ...

JAMES ISLAND — Three-year-old Marley Zen Harwyn and 2-year-old Zoe Sunshine Harwyn were a little timid at first when joining a lively drum circle of around 30 kids at the Charleston Pour House. Their ...

A couple years after Joel Smales heard Ithaca College's Steel Band, he bought a steel pan of his own to play along with Binghamton High School's Jazz Ensemble. "Everybody loved it," said Smales, a ...

If life gives you a steel trash barrel — make music. That’s just one of the lessons teacher Luke Abrahamson hopes to instill in 120 students who take part in Basha High School’s steel band — along ...