Students learn to play steel drums at summer camp

By Cassandra Brown
Staff Journalist

Using 55-gallon steel oil drums and small, wooden mallets, teens create music during a summer camp at Fauquier High School.

Nine teens have learned how to play the Caribbean steel drum summer camp this week at FHS.

For three hours each day, a cacophony of drums erupts in the band room.

Culpeper Middle School student Leah Knott, 14, says she took the camp because, “It sounded fun and I play drums for the school band.”

Leah plays one of the lead drums, responsible for the melody.

The students have already learned how to play “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, a popular song from the movie “The Lion King” in a day and a half. 

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  • J.A.T.,

    In Trinidad there are many steelbands that run programme through the year gear towards the youngsters, Renegades Invaders, Exodus, Birdsongs just to name a few and there are schools like St.Margarete's Boys. And yes there are many steelpan camps that are being run not just during summer but year round.

  • Learning to play pan is an excellent activity for young people, more and more people are realizing this.

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