Dec. 5—More than 40 musicians playing tubas, sousaphones, flugelhorns, and other brass instruments in the tuba family brought an unusually deep, mellow sound to Christmas in downtown Ada. The event, ...

What do you get when you combine more than 100 tubas, hundreds of people and the Kimmel Center’s Commonwealth Plaza? The answer: some of the best holiday classics in celebration of a Philadelphia ...

Andy Sorensen dressed his sousaphone up as Santa Clause. He's been performing at Anchorage TubaChristmas for 15 years. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts ...

Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...

Travis Netzer can thank bad TV reception in the 1990s for his unique take on rock music. As a kid growing up on a farm outside of Ipswich, the Netzers didn’t have a satellite and picked up about ...

On the one hand, Drums and Tuba are just your average rock power trio, logging 200 or so dates a year on the road. Typically, there’s guitar, there’s drums and, well, here’s where the analogy starts ...

Let’s face it–the tuba isn’t exactly a sexy instrument. When one thinks tuba, among the images generated are: polka, old men (detail: old men wearing black knee-high socks and bad plaid shorts), and ...

“A Promise Derailed.” Such of phrase could easily have been etched on Ray Draper’s tombstone to describe the tubaist’s trials in life and music. Killed in a botched robbery at the tragic age of 42 his ...

On one hand, Drums & Tuba are just your typical rock power trio, slogging it out 200 or so dates a year on the road. There's guitar, drums and, well, on the other hand, a tuba. And no singer. Yet it's ...

A newer tuba she played later first showed her how beautiful the instrument can sound, she said. She cried and even thought of stealing it when she had to leave it behind, she said. Garner started ...