Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conductor Lori Karns leads 65 tuba players during a "Tuba Christmas" performance at Noe Valley Town Square on Dec. 14, 2025.

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 ...

Merry Tuba Christmas was conceived in 1974 by Harvey Phillips as a tribute to his teacher and mentor, William J. Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. The annual celebration honors Bell’s ...

At special holiday concerts across Ohio, tuba, baritone and euphonium players take the center stage. If you’re part of an orchestra, here’s a line you probably don’t hear often: “The melody with this ...

PORT ANGELES — Call it a tuba takeover. Tubas, euphoniums and baritones will fill the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts & Events Hall on Sunday for the first Port Angeles TubaChristmas, a low-brass holiday ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In a holiday tradition that contributes to Portland’s reputation for embracing all things weird, the 34th Annual Tuba Christmas Concert once again filled the streets of ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

"Tuba Christmas" has reached the halfway point, and a holiday miracle is imminent. Sixty-five musicians hold massive euphoniums, sousaphones and tubas in Noe Valley Town Square, with nary a trumpet, ...