As would be anticipated, there's a lot of huffin' and puffin'—as well as a surprisingly wide range of color and modulation—on 'Tis the Season TUBA Jolly!, a delightful holiday album by tuba maestro ...

On Saturday afternoon, Portlanders near Pioneer Courthouse Square will be welcomed with the sound of Christmas music played by 200 tubas. This year marks the 31st year of Tuba Christmas in Portland, ...

Tuba Christmas was founded by Harvey Phillips, a Missouri native, more than 30 years ago. It brings tuba and euphonium players together once a year to play a concert of traditional holiday songs for ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins Friday, and music fans from all over the world will flock to the city's racetrack for seven days of music. A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a ...

As any musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player’s chest and ...

On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...

After months of practice and preparation, ASU music students get to demonstrate their skills to a live audience through The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts' annual presentation of Tubafest ...

Yutaka Kono wears many hats in Vermont’s music community. He’s artistic director of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra (read more about that) and conductor of the Vermont Youth Philharmonia, as well as ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

(AP) LOS ANGELES - They've still got their trombones and their trumpets, their cornets and their clarinets. But the high school marching bands of Southern California are going tuba-less these days, ...