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.

When the Lancaster High School Carnival Kids Steel Orchestra (SKSO) got together to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the man who started it all was there. John Marone, a Batavia native who taught at ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — November is Native American Heritage Month. It's a time to recognize the history, culture, and contributions of Indigenous people. In Native American culture, drums are used to ...

CASYM is an orchestra consisting entirely of steel pans — percussion instruments fashioned from 55-gallon oil drums and played with rubber-tipped mallets.

At his Detroit studio, Caribbean Mardi Gras Productions, Ralph Taylor has cleared away the giant Carnival costumes he designs and dusted off a dozen sets of steel drums he’d had in storage for years.

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 ...