A steel band for all kinds of weddings
We are a particularly popular choice with couples who want to hire an all-acoustic steel drum music for their wedding. Why?
- The history. We have 35 years of experience and a strong heritage. So, couples can’t go wrong hiring us to perform live steel drum wedding music.
- Our reputation. Just read ‘What Our Clients Say’! Hospitality professionals, wedding planners and wedding couples loved making us their steel band choice.
- How we look. Our steel band looks colourful and sunny making us the perfect contrast to the formality of a wedding.
- How we sound. Our wedding musicians are also outstanding players of steel drums. And we do have wonderful video and audio publicity to prove that!
Steel bands have been playing live as UK wedding bands since the ‘50s. Trinidadians Russell Henderson and Sterling Betancourt were among the first to play steel drum wedding music in the UK. Thereafter, Max Cherrie (Solid Steel bandleader Paul’s father) and Ralph Cherrie (Solid Steel musical director Mark’s father) joined them. To summarize, these guys were undeniably the first to play as steel trios in London back then. Pioneering Trinidadian musicians had ‘invented’ steel pans or steel drums- as some people also call them- only 20 years earlier. But, there was no such thing as an all-acoustic 3-piece steel band in Trinidad (with each musician playing a steel pan/drum) and it hasn’t emerged there or anywhere else since. Therefore, the steel band trio playing steel drum wedding music, remains a uniquely British phenomenon. A piece of British culture, you can see, and a gift from steel band musicians of Caribbean heritage in London. Due to this history, and Solid Steel’s family connections to it, our steel band is unique. This is because Cherries have literally ‘beaten a drum’ for small steel bands playing at weddings for generations now. So you think steel bands are now a ‘cool’ alternative to other live acoustic wedding bands? Bands like string quartets and traditional jazz bands? Blame us! We love playing at weddings and we equally love the diversity of the weddings we play at, too. Straight weddings, gay weddings, interracial weddings, Jewish weddings, Indian weddings, celebrity weddings. We’ve done them all and, as a result, we’re eager to continue playing great steel drum wedding music. Wedding music that meets the ever more diverse demands of modern British couples moving forward. Clearly, our background, experience and quality means you can trust Solid Steel to do a great professional job at every stage. This applies to the entire process. From your initial enquiry right up to the last note our steel drums play at your wedding!An experienced and reputable band
A steel band that embraces diversity
Bride plays steel drum as wedding musician assists