Long Island’s own Steel Impressions Steel Band is putting a spotlight on Caribbean culture through music. The band says they are the only family steel band on Long Island. O.V. Solomon came to the U.S ...
On a recent morning at Klahowya Secondary School, the seventh and eighth graders in John Lee's third-period steel pan class launched into the bossa nova strains of "Quando quando quando." Students ...
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 ...