bandstand
band stand
- n a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- It has a bandstand, Symphony Hall; a library, the Athenaeum.
- There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe .
- In the tented area behind the bandstand, musicians who had finished playing for the final night of Newport's third jazz festival were packing their instruments and saying goodbye.