Dance Band

Dance band can refer to one of several music genres

  • British dance band, a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s
  • Big band, a genre associated with the Swing Era
  • Dansband, a Swedish pop genre
  • Eurodance band, a genre of electronic dance music

Dance band can refer to one of several musical ensembles:

  • Dance Band (band), a musical group based in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Goombay Dance Band, a German based band of the 1970s

Dance band can also refer to:

  • Dance Band, a 1935 British musical film

Famous quotes containing the words dance and/or band:

    “Pike, three inches long, perfect
    Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
    Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
    They dance on the surface among the flies.”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)