Wedding Songs

Wonderful Steel Drum Sounds for Your Wedding

If you want to bring an interesting and new perspective to your wedding day, you should consider choosing steel drum wedding music. The steel drum, also known as the steel pan or just pan, is one of the musical instruments that have been invented during the last years.

The history of this instrument goes back to the 1880s in Trinidad, where gangs used drums to communicate with the other groups in the neighborhood, so drumming was used as a form of communication. The steel drum is made of 55 gallon oil drums which are handled with a hammer, manually or with the help of air pressure in order to produce musical tones.

This instrument carries the entire range of notes and this makes it an ideal instrument that can produce all kinds of sounds and songs. The performances made by these large instruments began to spread lately, being used in plenty of street celebrations and music festivals.

You can hire a steel drum band for a live performance, a DJ or you can simply play some recordings especially created for such occasions. Speaking of recordings, you can take into consideration:

Steel Drum Wedding Music by Bob Lyons

This CD is containing sixteen famous classic tunes by various artists nicely performed by Bob Lyons using the steel drums. Bob Lyons is an artist who fell in love with the sounds of the steel drum and all the styles and flavors of the Caribbean islands.

Till There Was You

Pachelbel’s Canon in D major

Unforgettable by Frank Sinatra

Ode to Joy by Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Hawaiian Wedding Song

Amazing Grace

Here, There and Everywhere

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach

Just the Way You Look Tonight

Trumpet Voluntary by Clarke

Can’t Help Falling In Love with You

The Bridal Chorus by Richard Wagner

Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn

Pachelbel’s Reggae Canon

Steel Drum Gold by Bob Lyons

This is another nice arrangement of fifteen songs by Bob Lyons for you to consider for your wedding reception.

Jamaica Farewell

One Love

Day-O (Banana Boat Song)

Yellow Bird

Margaritaville

Matilda, Matilda!

The Girl from Ipanema

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Brazil

Kokomo

Sweat (A La La La La Long)

Sugar Bum Bum

And I Love Her

Could You Be Loved

Under The Sea

Steel Drum Party Caribbean and Cuba by Various Artists

This CD contains 10 pieces with great sounds and good acoustics. This is just what you are looking for in order to give your outdoor entertaining a funny atmosphere.

Nani Wine

Quando Quando

April in Portugal

Island in the Sun

Francilia Teresa

Yellow Bird

Tell Me Why

Lambada

Poom Poom

Some Like It Hot

No matter if it’s a recording, a DJ or a live band, the wonderful steel drum music is a good choice for your wedding being an interesting perspective that will give your wedding day the magnitude and the uniqueness of the most special and important event in your life.

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