Steel Bands

Solid Steel - The party planners favourite steel band

Solid Steel Ambassadors - Ideal for receptions of any kind.

Cherry Pickers - 40 years on and Max is still going strong!

Steel Orchestras

Ebony - The reigning Panorama champions!

Mangrove - A very busy touring orchestra.

Nostalgia - Steel crazy after all these years.

Solo Pan Players

Gary Trotman - Sweet pan on intricately arranged backing tracks.

Eman Thorpe - Old-school charm will win any audience over.

Rachel Hayward - With stunning acoustic interpretations of classical pieces.

Mark Cherrie - Renowned writer/producer gets to play with his favourite band.

Caribbean Function Bands

Kaiso - Classic Caribbean grooves.

Tropical Storm - A kicking steel combo quartet.

Caribbean Xpress - Quality soca and reggae with brass too!

Reggae & Ska Bands

Trenchtown Experience - Brilliant Bob Marley tribute band.

XMY - As in Ex-Musical Youth of 'Pass the Dutchie' fame.

Backayard Roots - All your favourite reggae pop hits covered.

Herbert Spliffington All-Stars - Roots & ska featuring Young Satchmo.

Calypsonians

Alexander D Great - Here in the UK he is the calypsonians' Calypsonian.

Crusoe - Tobago's most celebrated calypso writer & singer.

S. W. Storm - A party soca man to get you 'jumping up'.

Caribbean Jazz Fusion Bands

Jazz Jamaica - Ska fused with jazz - a festival favourite.

Breakfast Band - Calypso, Latin & Jazz Funk in de callaloo!

Festivo - Eclectic acoustic band where pan & violin get to share a stage!

Limbo Dancers

Jeanette Springer - Still the UK's first lady of Limbo.

Mambo Jambo - Gets down lower than anyone else (snigger ye not!)

Caribbean Carnival Dancers

Shades of Black - Lovely girls will teach you how to 'whine yuh waist'!

Latin Function Bands

Palenké - Not just great authentic music but commercial stuff too!

Latin Fiesta - A fine flexible little band that can perform even as a duo.

Coco Xpress - Merengada's little sister featuring lady sax player Nina Jaffa.

Chilli Rojo - Talented singer Martha Acosta-Nino's all-girl band.

Pachanga - Flautist Felipe Rojas' Chilean-flavoured Salsa.

Salsa Bands

Caché - A great band featuring scintillating brass.

Merengada - Focusing on the more easily danceable rhythms of merengue

Latin Dancers

Magdalena & Geraldo - First rate professional Salsa dance couple from Trinidad no less!

Yurupari - Larisa & Anuar's excellent dance company are very versatile.

Yes!!! Brazil - The best-known of Brazilian groups, they have a fine reputation.

Rio Latino - A new Brazilian group who are already proving a big success.

Brazilian Bands

Viramundo - providing the best in original, authentic Brazilian Dance music

Grupo Folia - Great musicians who can play in very flexible band sizes.

Gilberto-Getz Tribute - A tribute to those wonderful artists who created the bossa nova.

'Gypsy Kings' style Rumba Flamenca Bands

Aires Flamenco - Lively and vibrant Gypsy Kings covers and a lot more besides.

Andalus - This band are very highly thought of on the corporate circuit.

Mexican Mariachi Bands

Los Charros - Led by the supremely entertaining Victor Garcia

Los Aztecas - Good, traditional Mariachi band with a superb Latin touch!

Andean 'Pan-Pipe' Music

Markasa - Beautiful pan-pipe playing from this first rate band

Apu - Terrific Peruvian band living in Geordieland!

Qosqo - A must-see act that never wants you to feel left out

Latin Jazz

Cubana Bop - Brighton's fine latin-jazzers rock with great dance grooves, too

Jose Volga - The brand of latin-jazz his band 'Chocolate On Ice Cream' play is sweet but never cold!

Roberto Pla - The timbalero maestro's band swings like few others.

African Drummers & Dancers

Uthingo - Elliot Ngubane's wonderful Zulu dance troupe

Kaagô - Exciting drumming and dancing from the Ivory Coast

Shikisha - Fabulous all-female Zulu dance company

Brekete - Fine Ghanaian dance troupe

African Dance Bands

Boombaya - A taste of the Ghanaian high life led by the inimitable Kari Bannerman.

Skokiaan - One of Paul Simon's fave flaves- high octane township jive from South Africa.

Abdelkader Saadoun - The best-known and funkiest Rai artist in the UK

King Masco - Masco always knows how to put on a show to get the crowd jumping!

Alafia - The sweet dance rhythms of Sierra Leone from Papa Sam

Indian Dancers

The Great Indian Dancers - Immodestly-monikered but very entertaining Punjabi group

Japanese Taiko Drummers

Mugenkyo - Explosive choreographed drumming from the land of the Rising Sun (i.e. Scotland)

Polynesian Dancers

Lei Aloha - Waiter, waiter, there's a pineapple chunk in my rice!

Flamenco Dancers

Viva Flamenco - Juan Ramirez's exciting dance troupe are the UK's most renowned

Acrobats

The Black Eagles - An excellent Tanzanian trio from Dar-Es-Salaam

The London Chinese Acrobats - All those great traditional juggling and acrobatic skills plus, of course the Lion Dance!

Mobile Bands

Pan 'Roun' Neck - They just strap on their steel pans and 'chip' (half walk/half dance) in time to their music!

Mariachi Bands - Both Los Aztecas & Los Charros are well-suited to El Presidente's garden party

Batucada Bands - Groups like Quilombo Do Samba bring us the percussive street rhythms of Rio Carnival

New Orleans Jazz Bands - Jambalaya are a fine example of the genre featuring their very own Grandmaster.

Name Bands

Boney M - Sooo kitsch and very popular both at home and abroad.

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - He's still a wonderful thing!

Tribute Bands

Duppy Conquerors - A Bob Marley tribute that's a great alternative to the Trenchtown posse

Baby Boney M - Boney M put up for adoption

We Be 40 - The name's not the only great thing about this tribute to the Brummie reggae-popsters

Theme Bands

Barbie Q & The Wipeouts - A fun 'beach party' function band that goes well beyond the standard Beach Boys covers

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