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SWEDISH: Harmony Orchestra, Folkie Lindahl / California Goldrush / Harmony Music 69 / 1940s

Folkie A. Lindahl (1894-1961) made his mark primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area of California as a player of the saxophone and violin, an orchestra leader and a music instructor. During World War I, he served as a sergeant in the 31st infantry of the US Army’s American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia in 1918-1919. He maintained connections with this group of veterans throughout his life. In the early 1920s, Folkie was leader of the Angel Island theater orchestra, and San Jose’s Lyric theater orchestra. In 1922, he visited New Jersey, where he was fêted by army buddy Charles Frey, before returning to California aboard the S. S. Columbia. In 1924, another army buddy, Richard McCaffrey, recruited Folkie to be a fellow member of the Atkins theater orchestra in Marysville, CA, some 40 miles north of Sacramento. Folkie, McCaffrey and two other orchestra members also performed as a saxophone quartet. By 1927, he was back in San Francisco, listed in the city directory as ‘musician’ with his address as 230 Jones Street, the newly opened Musicians Union Hall. In the late 1940s, Folkie became involved with the Harmony Music record label of Berkeley, CA, as both a performer and an orchestra leader. (Harmony Music records were issued by Scandinavian Music Company and contained music recorded both locally and overseas.) In the 1950s, Folkie was advertised as teaching “accordion, piano, and harmony” at Alfred Almestad’s Music Studio. (Almestad was a Norwegian accordion player who also recorded for Harmony Music, and ran both his ‘Music Studio’ and ‘Accordion Co.’ out of his Naples Street home in San Francisco.) In 1959, the AEF Siberian vets named Folkie senior vice commander. He was likely the ‘bachelor Folke Lindahl’ mentioned in San Francisco’s society pages in August of 1961, just weeks before he passed away in October. Folkie A. Lindahl was buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery for veterans in San Bruno, 10 miles south of the city of San Francisco. [California Goldrush, Harmony Orchestra, ldr Folkie Lindahl, Harmony Music 69, recorded 1940s, matrix FL-1] The flip side of this disk is Sjöman och Stjärnan:    • SWEDISH: Harmony Orchestra, Folkie Lindahl...   Scandinavia Playlist:    • Scandinavia & Finland