1.   A salsa band was on hand, and the town was decorated with Colombian flags.

2.   Herwig, a trombonist, worked in salsa dance bands during his apprenticeship in New York.

3.   I imagined a salsa band, a black cocktail dress.

4.   It has saturated TV stations with propaganda, staged free street festivals with salsa bands and hired James Carville, a longtime strategist for U.S. President Bill Clinton.

5.   Later Koite and I ended up at a club where a loud salsa band was playing.

6.   Last week, a bar called the Mariachi Corner featured a salsa band, blaring its music into the plaza.

7.   Ricardo is a percussionist who plays several nights a week in a local salsa band, Batacha.

8.   The party featured salsa bands and barbershop quartets, as well as Lithuanian meat pies, Nigerian seafood rolls and other ethnic foods from dozens of countries.

9.   There were salsa bands and pulsating Brazilian drumbeats, and the sweet chords of a flamenco guitar as you entered a hotel lobby.

10.   Participants marched peacefully Tuesday to the tunes of local reggae singers and a visiting Brazilian salsa band.