5 New Orleans Songs Featuring The Tuba : A Blog Supreme 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 ...

Traditional Mexican music, known as 'banda,' has been popular in Southern California for decades. And now, the tuba has gone from carrying the bass line in the back of the band, to stepping out ...

Plus, the tuba is so big and pulsating that no one in the audience can ignore it, making it a very sexy instrument in its own right, says Roper.

[Tuba music playing . . .] Miller: That is four members of the, what is going to be, 240 low brass players for this year’s edition, the 31st version of Portland’s Tuba Christmas at Pioneer ...

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 ...

A 99-Tuba Salute. Big Brass Gather to Remember the Man With Chops and 'Jaws' December 4, 2006. By ...

The song electrified Mexican tuba players; Herrejon was dubbed El Rey — The King. “It was a revelation,” said Rigoberto Santos, ...

This month, Curtis’s sole tuba student, Ethan Marmolejos, will graduate, which has given rise to a global search. Curtis enrolls a total of around 160 students but just one tuba student at a ...

Tuba enthusiasts celebrated the 15th annual TubaChristmas on an unseasonably warm afternoon on Sunday at Valparaiso University. Reid Venstrom, 9, of Valparaiso, came in shorts. “I just like the ...

A video of Matt Buck humiliating the Klan has gone viral. We talked to the American hero about the rally, his song selection, and ‘Tuba Libre’ social justice.

And they brought stories of a man who loved those colorful hats, the deep, booming notes of his tuba, seeing people smile and flirting with women. "He was always flirting with the ladies," said ...