First Steel Band Grammy Award Nominee

[Caspar Durant]

How many of you know that The Esso Trinidad Steel Band, of which I was the youngest member, was the first Steel Band to be nominated for a Grammy Award?

Keep your shirt on, The year was 1971 and you can get the facts here:

http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Music/1971/Grammys.asp

under the nomination heading "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording"

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[tmac48]

Hey Caspar....I am not sure you would remember me ....but I do remember you from the good old days in Tranquillity Boys Cadets...way back in the 60's...I am Anthony McKenzie.....I too left in 1967....Imagine all this time you have been a pan man and I never new that ....but I do remember that Tripoli was the first band to be nominated in the Grammies.....

[Ian Franklin]

Mr. Caspar Durant,
Please contact me at [phone] or [e-mail]
Sincerely,
Ian Franklin