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"Men of steel!"
The exuberant sounds of the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band provide the perfect soundtrack to the season of commencements and celebrations. This group, which took its name from the Marine hymn, goes back to the very beginnings of tuned steel pan music in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in the 1940s. (The steel pans were originally made from the tops of used oil drums discarded by U.S. military forces.) Based in Ypsilanti and known all over the world, they've had an amazing career that has included opening for Liberace, performing for Queen Elizabeth, and winning the "bomb" prize at Trinidad's national Panorama steel band competition, given for best arrangement of a European classical composition for steel band. All of which is to say that if you've never seen the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band, you're missing out on one of the amazing institutions of music in Michigan.
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