Steel drums, or rather more accurately steel pans, were first made of old oil drums in Trinidad.
So naturally, you can find people playing them in the "Cape Cod of the Midwest" - Door County.
Cari and I attended a tour at the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor. Birch Creek offers an acclaimed summer music program for aspiring young musicians from across the country (and even at least one kid from Hawaii!).
The other day, however, they were working with folks just a wee little bit older with us as their students...
Birch Creek invites in its many friends and benefactors to tour the facility and participate in a little mini-lesson of their own...
Who knew Cari could rock out on the steel pan!