Marching to the beat of their own drum, students file into a room at Village Bible Church early each Saturday morning for marching band practice. They don’t have a practice field or an instrument ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY - When her kids attended West High, Barbara DeGroot discovered the school's steel drum band. From that day forward, every time she saw Ginny Armstrong, the band's instructor, DeGroot would ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find any Revolutionary War relics in Pleasanton. With its wide cul-de-sacs, shiny new homes and neat lawns, the placid modern suburb is nothing like colonial Williamsburg. "I ...