Tuba Christmas, a nationwide holiday tradition, returned to Peoria on Sunday, bringing dozens of brass musicians together for ...

We went to Noe Valley to watch a 65-tuba orchestra perform a Mariah Carey Christmas classic. The scene was wild … and ...

A wave of deep brass tones echoed through the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall on Saturday, Oct. 26, as Dr. P. Blake Cooper lifted his tuba and kicked off this year’s OcTUBAfest. The annual celebration ...

Tubas, euphoniums, baritones, sousaphones and other big brass instruments will play classic Christmas tunes Saturday in Westminster, as the second annual Westminster TubaChristmas event comes to town.

Show time was about 10 minutes away when Gary Gillett paused from his work checking microphones and chairs in the Bonner Park bandstand. His faced filled with joy as he eyed an ever-growing audience ...

You might not know Sam Pilafian by name, but you've probably heard his tuba. Whether it was on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or he was playing while doing a headstand — a move that gave him the nickname ...

Like other tuba players, Arlona Schulz enjoys playing her instrument but sometimes bemoans the fact that she never gets to play the melody or a solo. But here comes Antioch Tuba Christmas — which ...

Tuba, or not tuba? For the more than 80 low brass instrumentalists and the hundreds gathered at Valparaiso University’s Chapel of the Resurrection Sunday afternoon for the 14th annual TubaChristmas, ...

Tuba player, Kerwin "Fat" James, founding member of the New Birth Brass Band, died last week in New Orleans. For the past year Kerwin had been in a coma suffering complications from a stroke The ...

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 ...

Old friends, audience members and random musicians often flow on and off The Big Ass Brass Band’s stage, sometimes even mid-song. But that’s all part of the fun for the Dallas-based brass band.