OP45 - Leith, Charles; Titus, Rawle; Baptiste, George;

Abstract

Charles Leith, George Baptiste and Muriel Crookshank all performed the speech band. Leith played the role of commander and Baptiste played the fiddle. Rawle Titus, a school teacher who has studied anthropology, supervised the Mt. St. George Folk Group which had speech band as an item in the Best Village Competition. Eileen Guillaume was a retired cultural officer. James Murray, a choir master, had a large written collection of Tobago folk songs.