Music in the English Speaking Caribbean Featuring Olive Walke
Olive Walke (1911-1969) Olive Walke was an internationally educated, accomplished, and prominent musical figure from Trinidad and Tobago. Her love for folk music drove her to collect Folk songs from rural areas, and deliver them to urban areas to be acknowledged and celebrated. During her musical endevors, Walke not only provided a platform for young musicians to perform, but she founded the famous choir, "La Petite Musicale" which performed many of the folk music in Walke's collection. Walke would later join the ranks of politicians, leaving behind her collection of folk music in the book "Folk Songs of Trinidad and Tobago," by Boosey and Hawkes as a gift to the music world. This blog is a music playlist of a selection of songs connected to Olive Walke in some way. As Olive Walke's passion was to collect and preserve folk and calypso music, this playlist showcases a selection of songs which relate to Calypso music, or are themselves, Calypso music