A steel band for all kinds of weddings
As an all-acoustic steel band for hire we are a particularly popular choice with couples who simply love our steel band for weddings. Why?
- The history. With 35 years of experience and a strong heritage couples can’t go wrong hiring us to perform live steel drum wedding music.
- Our reputation. Just read ‘What Our Clients Say’ as hospitality professionals, wedding planners and wedding couples show love for 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 outstanding and we have wonderful video and audio publicity to prove it!
Steel bands have been playing live as UK wedding bands since the ‘50s. Steel pans or steel drums as they are also known had been ‘invented’ less than 20 years earlier in Trinidad. Trinidadians Russell Henderson, Sterling Betancourt, Max Cherrie (Solid Steel bandleader Paul Cherrie’s father) and Ralph Cherrie (Solid Steel musical director Mark Cherrie’s father) were the first to play as steel trios in London back then. 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 anywhere else since. The steel band trio playing steel drum wedding music, remains a uniquely British phenomenon supplied mostly by steel band musicians of Caribbean heritage in London. Our steel band is uniquely well-established as a ‘cool’ alternative to other live acoustic wedding bands such as string quartets and traditional jazz bands due to this history, and Solid Steel’s family connections to it. We love playing at weddings and we love the diversity of the weddings we play at. Straight weddings, gay weddings, interracial weddings, Jewish weddings, Indian weddings, celebrity weddings. We’ve done them all and we’re eager to play the steel drum wedding music that meets the ever more diverse demands of modern British couples in the future. Our background, our experience and our quality means you can trust Solid Steel to do a great professional job at every stage- from your initial enquiry right up to the last note we play at your wedding.An experienced and reputable steel band

Bride plays steel drum as wedding musician assists