What is "bandshells"

Usage examples of "bandshells".

Yet to come were the bandshells full of drummers, and choirs singing new patriotic lyrics to old hymns.

In those days also it was the style for girls to wear long, embroidered shawls and orchids in their hair—these shawls were part of numerous dances of the period, when at midnight in the public bandshells, groups of music students from the university would unpack their instruments, and the asphalt esplanades would fill with lithe, expectant couples.