article showing Henry Halstead was a fiddler playing violin as a pioneer dance band leader in 1919 at Santa Monica, California with Abe Lyman and Gus Arnheim.
article showing Henry Halstead and Orchestra at the Cocoanut Grove Roof Garden of the Park Central Hotel in New York on July 18th 1935, article showing Henry Halstead at Plantation Cafe, article showing 30 Ace Bands at Roseland Ballroom for benefit ball in Brooklyn New York at Broadway and 51st. Bands include Fred Waring, Hal Kemp, Paul Whiteman, Abe Lyman, Casa Loma, Benny Goodman, Henry Halstead, Xavier Cugat, Ray Noble and many others