Pennsylvania, USA - The Ambridge Area Steel Drum bands will perform a silver anniversary show Saturday, and if you've ever heard them play you know that means one thing.
"Fun," band director Todd Hartman said.
"It's just students enjoying themselves, playing what they've worked so hard to learn," Hartman said. "It's got a lot of energy. We'll get people tapping their toes."
...Honoring musical tradition, and spinning it on its ear, are all part of the fun for the Ambridge Steel Drum bands, whose legacy has spanned performances in the 2004 Rose Bowl Parade, the 1995 AFC Championship Game at Three Rivers Stadium, as an opening act for Steven Spielberg at a San Francisco banquet, and numerous western Pennsylvania festivals, conventions, corporate events and just about everywhere else where people have craved calypso sounds that originated more than a century ago in Trinidad and Tobago.
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