The steel bands and the parade are the true essence of carnival.
Steel bands from Trinidad and Tobago, undisputably the best of the best, now travel all over the world.
She caught the plaintive melody of a steel band being played a long way off.
Street parades are held in various districts throughout the month, allowing everyone an opportunity to participate and dance to the season's most popular brass band, steel band and roadmarch tunes.
Steel bands and their predecessors tended to be associated with particular neighbourhoods and were often willing to engage in street battles with rivals.
Peter claims he spent an estimated $30,000 making his barrel, made of steel and fiberglass, which had harnesses, reinforcing steel bands, and viewing ports.
The main reason for this was that they had played in the steel band, as had two of the other six.
Surely, if one describes a steel band with certain particulars of the sort of people required, one would immediately convey what was wanted.
