From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdance bandˈdance band noun [countable] APMa group of musicians who play music that you dance to
Examples from the Corpus
dance band• They're a dance band with a message, pleasure politicians with some Big Ideas.• The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians.• This gives us an unbalanced picture of dance band and jazz arrangements today.• The dance band is playing, sounds like a military tune, certainly not like the local dances back home. 