This is an opinion tribute cartoon. When the Saints Go Marching In, Charles E. Hall will be there ‘holding down the low end’ on tuba. For one, there will be the thrill of performing before a large ...
On Sunday, the Hot 8 Brass Band played the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for the first time without Bennie Pete, their longtime leader and tuba player. Pete was 45 when he died, in September, ...
WKAR Current Sports reporter never intended to play the tuba, or be part of the section for most of his life. He’s glad the journey took him to the back of the band. There are 300 members in Michigan ...
Richard Morgan has lived in Grand Junction only since June, but it didn't take long for the tuba player to find the Centennial Band, an all-volunteer band of local musicians. It was just the outlet to ...
FORTY FORT – It can be difficult being a tuba player. Ian Cavalari, however, has learned to wield the big brass instrument with skill, playing in a variety of bands, practicing with the Northeastern ...
New Breed Brass Band earned a Grammy nomination for their album "Second Line Sunday," which sought to capture the sounds of ...
Some Saturday evening after a Tigers game you might wander into Greektown for a bite to eat and hear the sound of brass band music rising above the bouzouki melodies wafting out of Greek eateries.
Kermit Ruffins has spent decades carrying the sound of New Orleans through brass bands, neighborhood shows, and jazz ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This 15-year-old New Orleans student is inspired. His name is Macayrin Holmes but everybody calls him “Tuba-Du”. And he does play music and organizes. That’s why he’s now behind ...
I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band. But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!
One of the most recognizable and respected names in the storied history of New Orleans brass band music is “Onward.” Founded “some time before 1877” according to one source, the Onward Brass Band ...
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