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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Big changes often start with small steps, as recent events have shown us. At Boston University Tuesday night, one of those changes may have begun with a symphony orchestra, a composer and a new ...

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

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 ...

Intra-I, the second album by tuba player and London jazz star Theon Cross is many things — a deeply personal exploration of self, a remarkable achievement in the possibility of sound, and also the ...

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 ...

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 ...