Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each ...

Amy Gould found herself sitting at her piano one day during the COVID-19 pandemic. She hadn’t written music in years, but ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Through photos, recordings, videos, and playing instruments, students will explore the steel band tradition of Trinidad and Tobago. In the first ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

The Western Illinois University Steel Band will present a free concert in the United Township High School auditorium at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 17. Steel-band music centers on a pitched percussion ...

Jess Carey Bright and bouncy music drifts out of Fulkerson Hall on Monday evenings as Cal Poly Humboldt’s Calypso Ensemble gather for their weekly rehearsal. Rhythmic and soaring, it’s a ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...