Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. - It was Carnival Monday shortly after World War 2. The newly formed steelband players who called themselves, The Boys from Iwo Jima, but was dubbed “The White Boys from Corbeaux Town,” led by Ernest Ferreira with Everard Leon and other college boys, were chipping along Park Street, heading east when coming towards them, was the Tokyo Steelband from John John, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain.
Some spectators feared they would see fisticuffs galore with bottles and stones flying all over the place but to their surprise, the Tokyo boys stopped playing occupied half of the road and allowed the “white college boys” to move along beating their pans. Then Tokyo cheered the “Cobo Town band” for their pan-beating dexterity. What a welcome to the steelband fraternity that must have been for the new band!
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I really enjoyed this Article, very Touching ending with the late DR Eric Williams.
great history to show we are all trinis after all