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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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