Soca sensation Claudette "CP" Peters will be receiving a prestigious award from the longest running association of Antiguans and Barbudans living overseas. Peters will be travelling to New York to accept the Salome Drysdale Excellence Award for Women from the Antigua Progressives Society at its 75th anniversary banquet and awards. The event will take place at the Faculty Dining Room, City College, in New York on September 26, 2009.

The award is being given to Peters for her work and contribution to the development of Carnival, culture, and the promotion of Antigua and Barbuda worldwide. Peters said she was extremely honoured to be recognised with an award in the name of a woman that has done so much to uplift of her fellow countrymen and women. According to the president of the society, Oswald Thomas, Peters will be one of the first to receive this newly established award in the name of former president, Salome Drysdale. Drysdale mortgaged her own family home in Queens, NY unknowing to her husband so as to help the 75-year-old organisation purchase 12 West 122nd Street in Harlem widely known as "Antigua House." The Antigua Progressive Society was organised in 1934