ARTIST: Tuba Skinny ALBUM: “Rag Band” (no label listed) Tuba Skinny is a band of traveling minstrels that will take you back in time, not to the usual oldies land of the 1950s, but way back to the ...

The Galena Center for the Arts will present Tuba Christmas at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at Turner Hall, 115 S. Bench St., ...

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 ...

Brightly colored lights and presents under the tree bring Christmas to mind for many. But for others, it’s the sounds of ...

The rather disparate timbres of the tuba and French horn will come together at 3 p.m. today in Peter Hall on Moravian College’s Church Street campus. Grant W. Moore II, tuba, and Martin Webster, horn, ...

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 ...

Facts & Arguments is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Learning a musical instrument has a long list of benefits for children ...

I’ve said it before, but few instruments get less respect than the tuba—not only is it unwieldy to play, but most folks associate it strictly with oompah music or marching bands. Obviously the tuba ...

Tuba Christmas, in its 41st anniversary year, broke a record Dec. 20 at the Chicago Palmer House Hilton, drawing more than 400 musicians who came to play the tuba, sousaphone or euphonium. Many ...

“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 ...