St. Luke's Steel Band was started in the fall of 1999 when Father Victor Rogers and a group of supporters from New Haven's historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church purchased a set of used steel drums from a band in Brooklyn. Since then, the group has attracted a dedicated membership of 25 players of all ages. Many of the members or their families come from the West Indies: the islands of Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago are all represented in the ensemble.

The band rehearses twice a week and performs regularly during services at St. Luke's Episcopal Church. They also play for concerts, festivals, benefits and private functions throughout the region. Their repertoire includes soca and calypso, reggae, classical, sacred, jazz, popular and island folk music.

Under the direction of coach/arranger Debby Teason and assistant director Donna Johnson, St. Luke's Steel Band has gained a reputation as one of the area's most exciting performing ensembles. The band's achievements were recognized in 2003 by an Artist's Award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and for they have won two gold medals at the Panorama Caribbean Music Fests in Virginia Beach. In 2008 they performed with tenor pan virtuoso Liam Teague for a standing-room-only crowd in New Haven, and April 2009 featured a joint concert with the renowned Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra from Washington DC. Following a highly successful performance on the Yale School of Music's Duke Ellington Concert Series with composer/performer Andy Akiho in April 2010, St. Luke's Steel Band was invited back to perform again with Mr. Akiho in November 2010.