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 ...

Many things make New Orleans a one-of-a-kind music town, but one is the tuba, the monstrous brass instrument worn like a python squeezing its victim. Where The Tuba Lives: 5 New Orleans Songs ...

The tuba, like the Mexican genre of music known as banda, gets a bad rap from critics who say it’s too simple and can’t be taken seriously. But fans of both know that’s not true. This includes writer ...

Before he came to Southern California in 2002, Fidel Bernabe played trumpet in a small town in Mexico and believed himself to be very talented. Los Angeles had many bandas — Mexican brass bands that ...

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