Dance band music in Sweden

Hello! My name is Marcus Larsson, I live in Sweden, and I am going to
write about Swedish dance band music. A dance band is a music group that
plays dance music, which means music that people dance to. There
are many dance bands in Sweden, for example Sven Ingvars, Thorleifs
and Vikingarna, who are old dance bands, and young ones like Zekes and
The Playtones.

Dance bands often take the name of one of the members and put an "s" or a "z" in the end to get the band name. That's pretty unimaginative, in fact,
but that's how it is.

Dance band music can sound like rock'n'roll or like other music styles
that you can dance to. I like the rock influenced style the most.

In Sweden there is a competition and television show about the best
dance band in Sweden. It is called "Dansbandskampen", in English it
would be "The dance band fight". The band called "The playtones" won
last year and "Lars Kristerz" won in 2008. Lars Kristerz has had
one really great song called "Carina".

Thank you for reading. Have a nice day!

Marcus Larsson