“We might start out in Trinidad and Tobago, where they play the steel drum and Calypso music. And then we might take them to Brazil, where they play Samba. Also, we take the audience to Cuba to ...

Zoot Velasco knew what he had to do even as the Eaton Fire continued burning. Still evacuated from his northwest Pasadena home, Velasco started hearing about so many friends and neighbors losing ...

Coded language to communicate and drumming would birth Calypso music ... Taken in March 1946, this photo captures men playing steel drums during a street carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Members of the Caribbean music band Upstream come from the Pasadena and Altadena area, and they will bring their brand of reggae, calypso, soca and steel drum music to The Alex. Velasco said ...

Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is distinguished by its musical part. Unlike the Brazilian carnival, which is dominated by samba, it features steel drums, calypso and soca music, a style that ...

I thought of the swaying palm trees, natives playing on their handmade steel drums and crooning Calypso music as I lay on white sands looking over sparkling aqua seas. Yes. Let’s go. Which meant a ...

To celebrate Fat Tuesday, Global Village heads to several carnival hot spots - Brazil (for some tropicalia), Trinidad (with calypso and steel drum music), and the Crescent City (including the ...

The New York singer-songwriter came up with a unique effect on a train in Europe, – and that’s just one example of his ...

A stainless steel refrigerator holds aluminum soda cans. A stainless steel drum tumbles inside an aluminum washing machine. They're the metals used in cars and airplanes, phones and frying pans ...