The sounds of steel­pan echoed across T&T yes­ter­day, as the coun­try joined glob­al cel­e­bra­tions for the third ob­ser­vance of World Steel­pan Day, of­fi­cial­ly recog­nised by the Unit­ed Na­tions in 2023.

Wood­ford Square and the in­ner streets of the cap­i­tal city trans­formed in­to a stage for live steel­pan mu­sic, re­plac­ing the every­day hus­tle with the bright, rhyth­mic notes born from the oil drum.

For Pan Trin­ba­go, the oc­ca­sion marked an­oth­er mile­stone in its decades-long mis­sion to se­cure the in­stru­ment’s place on the world stage.