More Great Artists
Please use the booking form for enquiries about any of the following acts. Don't forget to check our Featured Artists
Steel Bands
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
Tropical Storm - A kicking steel combo quartet.
Caribbean Xpress - Quality soca and reggae with brass too!
Reggae & Ska Bands
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'.
Soul & Gospel Bands Of Caribbean Origin
Diva- Great soul band fronted by the irrepressible Cheryl Lucas
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
Mambo Jambo - Gets down lower than anyone else (snigger ye not!)
Latin Function Bands
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
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.
Brazilian Bands
Yes!!! Brazil - The best-known of Brazilian groups, they have a fine reputation.
Grupo Folia - Great musicians who can play in very flexible band sizes.
Gypsy Kings' style Rumba Flamenca Bands
Gilberto-Getz Tribute - A tribute to those wonderful artists who created the bossa nova.
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
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
Kaagô - Exciting drumming and dancing from the Ivory Coast
Brekete - Fine Ghanaian dance troupe
African Dance Bands
Skokiaan - One of Paul Simon's fave flaves- high octane township jive from South Africa.
King Masco - Masco always knows how to put on a show to get the crowd jumping!
Acrobats
The Black Eagles - An excellent Tanzanian trio from Dar-Es-Salaam
The London Chinese Acrobats - 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
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