TNTeague Steel Drum Duo @ The Abbey

TNTeague, the father and son duo of Liam Teague and Jaden Teague-Núñez, offers an exciting, eclectic, and unique blend of music that includes calypso, jazz, classical and ragtime.

18-year-old Jaden Teague-Núñez is a multi-instrumentalist (steelpan, piano and percussion) and recently created history when he became the first steelpan player to win the 2024 Crain-Maling Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition, and was recently recognized as National 2025 YoungArts winner with distinction in classical/percussion by the National Foundation for the Advancement of Artists (aka YoungArts). Liam Teague is one of the world’s leading steelpan virtuosos and serves as professor of music and director of steelpan studies at Northern Illinois University. His commitment to demonstrating the great musical possibilities of the steelpan has taken him throughout the world, and he is an NIU’s Board of Trustees Professorship (2022), and Presidential Professor (2018).