Entertainment 

For years, people have begged for entertainment- not just music, but entertainment. Since 1998, The CalypsoNuts have delivered just that.
Audiences from Key West to Put-In Bay, and all along the Caribbean itineraries, have been delighted by the duo with the island twist.

“Sure it’s steel drums,” says Robbie Meade, “but we look at them a little differently. We take the drums where we want them to go instead
of allowing the drums to force our musical hand.”

Sponsored by Corona Extra, Corona Light, and Kokomo Island Traders, The CalypsoNuts are more than just a steel drum act.
The “Entertainment Without Net” approach guarantees that each show is custom tailored to fit the event.
With no shows identical, The CalypsoNuts have the freedom and flexibility to switch gears in the middle of the show
and take the audience in a new direction and to a completely different mood.

The nightly menu consists of Pop and Rock, Reggae and Soca, Acoustic and Electric; all different, but all the perfect ingredients
to a great bowl of musical gumbo.

“So, pack your bags and let The Nuts’ music take you to your favorite island”
Mike Lindsay, past President
Washington Area Parrothead Club

At 11 years, The CalypsoNuts are the longest running act at “The Meeting of the Minds”, the week-long National Parrot Head Convention
held every November in Key West, Florida. As of March 2009, The Nuts are now Musical Alumni of the Atlanta Parrot Head cruise,
a 7 night, annual Caribbean cruise to benefit cancer research.

In 2008 and 2009, 4 contracts with Disney Cruise Lines were packed with shows that were said to have raised the bar for any subsequent duos that sail with them.
Meade says, “More than a just feather in our caps, the time spent with Disney taught us the important lessons of how to “Do it right…every time!”

The CalypsoNuts CDs “Six More Weeks” and “No Lifeguard on Duty” and rare live shows receive regular air play on Radio Margaritaville
and several other internet and sattelitte radio stations. Numerous local and regional “Best of” awards further confirm The CalypsoNuts’ ability
to take you to the sunshine of the islands no matter what the weather is like outside. Fondly known as The ‘Nuts by friends and clients,
these two entertainers have a way of making the whole crowd feel special and connected to the event.

“Robbie and Lynley are superb entertainers. Fun, talented, wacky and a taste of the islands – they’ve got it all.”
Cindy Ely
President, Parrothead Club of Richmond

Visit The CalypsoNuts website at www.calypsonuts.com

Michael “Crawdaddy” Crawley was born in Detroit, Michigan, AKA the Motor City. His musical influences stem from his family, especially his father, Frank,
 and his grandmother, “Hohner’s Little Lady”. Frank introduced Crawdaddy to the music of Nat King Cole, The Mills Brothers and The Ink Spots, as well as
show tunes like “South Pacific,” “My Fair Lady” and “The Music Man.” Then one fateful day in 1964, he and millions of Americans saw the Beatles perform
on the “Ed Sullivan Show” for the first time, which changed his musical life forever. Soon after he and his brother Brian began collecting all of the
Beatles’ records they could find.

At the age of eight, Crawdaddy’s grandmother gave him his first harmonica, a gift from Hawaii where she once lived. It inspired him to learn his first Beatles
song, “Love Me Do”. Later, he started swapping rock records with good friend David Allen, who introduced him to bands like The Who, Pete Townshend,
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, and anything Motown. The influences for these 60′s and 70′s rock bands led him to legendary Blues artists
such as Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and Sonny Terry – which continued to expand Crawdaddy’s
musical horizons.

In 1972, while in high school, he joined his first band as lead singer with David Allen on guitar and drummer Bill Reyna called Ernie and the Neighborhood
Gang. His cousin Kevin told him, “If you’re going to be a lead singer of a rock band you need to blow that harp once in a while.” So he took his advice,
practicing constantly until he mastered the harp. Although the band only lasted a year or so it proved a great early experience in his musical growth.
That same year Crawdaddy and his friend Randy Nelson hitchhiked to Florida for spring break, taking their harps with them. They spent most of the week
trying to figure out how to bend a note, which proved to be one of the hardest harp licks to master. From that point on Crawdaddy would always keep a
harp in his pocket.

Between 1974 and 1977 Crawdaddy played in various bands in the Detroit area including “NIJA”, a band started by Terry Lee Bolton. In late 1977 he moved
to Baytown, TX and worked on a merchant drill ship drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. One of his shipmates, upon hearing him practicing on his harmonica deep
below in one of the catacombs, introduced Crawdaddy to the music of Jimmy Buffett and his harpist, Greg “Fingers” Taylor. Their sound and influence from
an eclectic range of styles suited Crawdaddy well. This marked his first encounter with the emerging musical genre of Tropical Rock, or Trop Rock, which
would greatly influence his life in later years.

In 1978 Crawdaddy moved back to the Motor City and started the band Money Talks, a blues-influenced rock band covering more harmonica-oriented music,
with his old friend David Allen. It was during this period that he started writing his own original music. Money Talks played the bar circuit in the Downriver area
of Detroit for several years. After they disbanded, he led the group Mike Crawley and the Wise Guys before packing it up and moving to California in 1981.

Crawdaddy spent the next 10 years playing in the Santa Barbara music scene (already home to two of the world’s greatest Harp players in Tom Ball and
Mitch Kasmar). After a brief sting with Barry Cowsill, of the Cowsills, a 60’s band made up of all family members, Crawdaddy began jamming with various
bands until 1983 when he met singer/songwriter guitarist David Crane and Crane/Crawley was formed. They added Rod Rolle (The Emperor of the Bo Diddley
beat) on drums and Larry Cappdaville on bass and the rest was Santa Barbara history. They quickly gained fame in the local Santa Barbara music scene,
known for their hyper antics on stage. Santa Barbara journalist Eugene Pigeon once wrote: “They are faster then a speeding taxi, more powerful then a
triple espresso, able to leap tall barstools in a single bound…well, you get my drift”.

After five years of non-stop performing, the band stopped playing in 1988. Crawdaddy then started The Crawdads with blues guitarist Robert Thomas Bucy,
then known as “Texas” Tom Bucy. The Crawdads picked up where Crane/Crawley left off, writing and playing more blues/rock tunes. After performing up
and down the central California coast, Crawdaddy moved to Knoxville, TN in 1991.

During those first few years in Knoxville he formed a band called Crawdaddy, which eventually morphed into the Macdaddies, playing clubs, parties and
events and earning them the Best Blues band honors in 1994.

Crawdaddy’s first introduction to the world of Trop Rock was at Knoxville’s Tropic Festival in 1997, where he appeared with St. Somewhere, A1A and
Greg Bridgewater. The next year he travelled to Key West with St. Somewhere for Meeting of the Minds, the official Convention for Parrot Heads in Paradise.
Here he discovered Parrot Heads and their love of Trop Rock music. From 1998 to 2001 he joined St. Somewhere on the road, traveling all over the United States.

Over the years he has appeared in countless Trop Rock festivals and Parrot Head events, many of which are with “his brother from another mother”,
a singer/songwriter named Paul Bobal AKA “Tall Paul”. In addition, Crawdaddy is often seen onstage jamming with a wide variety of performers. Some
notable Trop Rock musicians he has collaborated with include Will Kimbrough, Tropical Soul, James “Sunny Jim” White and John Frinzi.

Thirty years after picking up his first harp, Crawdaddy continues the musical journey his grandmother began. Over the years Crawdaddy has befriended
some of Jimmy Buffett’s bandmates – the Coral Reefers, and he has performed with a variety of musicians like Fingers Taylor, Magic Dick of The Geils Band,
Mitch Kashmar of the band War and Mark Hummel, and has opened up for well-respected artists such as BB King, Johnny Winter, Kenny Wayne Shepard,
Blackfoot, Delbert McClinton, The Sauce Boss, Marshall Tucker, Mac MacAnally and Nadirah Shakoor.

These days Crawdaddy performs in a wide range of musical outfits, spanning many musical genres: a blues duo called the Detroit Daddies; the Trop Rock
duo with Tall Paul (affectionately known as “TallDaddy”); a seven-piece blues band called “Jenna and Her Cool Friends” (who represented Knoxville at the
2012 International Blues Challenge in Memphis); a local Jug band called Y’uns; and a rock outfit called Crawdaddy the Band.