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Tulsa American Legion Band

A contemporary Daily Oklahoman notice advertised a concert by the Tulsa American Legion Band; later obituaries identify leadership, but it is not treated as an earlier Tulsa Community Band name.

People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for Tulsa American Legion Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

Tulsa American Legion Band is treated as a military or veterans ensemble under the unit, post, ship, or veterans affiliation stated in its name and evidence. The packet does not infer a different command relationship or uninterrupted unit lineage.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Tulsa American Legion Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by 1940 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Tulsa American Legion Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1940

    A Daily Oklahoman report documents the Tulsa American Legion Band as active by August 30, 1940.

  2. 1970-04-05

    A 1970 Tulsa World retrospective connected the Tulsa American Legion Band with Shrine and Community-band settings but did not prove a rename, merger, or continuous 1970 concert chronology.

Sources

  1. oklahomabandhistory.org/bands/tulsa-american-legion-band/