The Trinidad Tripoli Steelband

Caribbean reinvention

by James M. Manheim

posted 12/1/2005

Not many people in Ann Arbor know the history of the steel drums (or steel pans) that have sounded through half a dozen Jimmy Buffett records and countless tropical vacations. And still fewer know that Washtenaw County is home to a band whose roots go back to the beginnings of the steel drum phenomenon.

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