Sentence examples for band act from inspiring English sources

March 9 at 8: The conductor and his band act as backup group for the freak-folk avatars Antony and the Johnsons, who will perform several new songs in arrangements by Nico Muhly.

"As rockers grow older sometimes it is pitiful to see them on stage," said Dave Glicker, owner of the Downtown, a club in Farmingdale where Mr. Snider performed in a scaled-down bar band act called Bent Brother earlier this year.

Twist has a long history in puppet-making: The San Francisco native's mother was part of a puppetry club, and his grandfather used puppets in his big band act.

In 1989 Healey and band acted and performed music in the trashy Patrick Swayze film Road House.

The band acts out the rituals of wildness and dissipation; the fans expect it, and it's good for business.

But he was done with Birmingham, Ala., where he had a band, acted in plays and had an easy life.

The notion that the IT band acts as a spring to aid in locomotion runs counter to the decades-old belief that its primary function is to stabilize the hip during walking.

Its most recent albums have been welcoming and unselfconscious; when performing, the band acts as though its mixture of emotional appeal, pop kitsch, and political sloganeering is utterly unremarkable.

On his own "Stuttering," Mr. Hersch and the band acted similarly, playing around with short staccato figures, making the music decelerate, taking it apart and opening it up for individual, nearly narrative solos.

Authorities have said they believe Page, a musician in a skinhead hardcore band, acted alone.

On Late Night, the band acted in a hilarious comedy skit with Fallon himself.