Answer: band means....
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters. ... a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances.
band used as a noun:
A group of musicians, especially (a) wind and percussion players, or (b) rock musicians. A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; i.e. marching band. ... A group of energy levels in a solid state material. Valence band, conduction band. A small group of people living in a simple society.
How do you refer to a band?
Collective nouns, such as the word band, are generally singular in the United States; but for band names, most people go by the rule that if the band name sounds plural (like the Beatles or Black Eyed Peas), they treat the name as plural, and if the band name sounds singular (like Fall Out Boy or Coldplay), they treat ...
