Banda is a
brass-based form of traditional Mexican music. Bandas play a wide variety of songs, including
rancheras,
corridos,
cumbias,
baladas, and
boleros. Band are most widely known for their rancheras, but they also play modern
Mexican pop, rock, and cumbias. Most Banda music is very clearly a dialect of polka and will seem familiar and appealing to fans of polka or traditional German and Polish music.