There are more than a few performers playing this weekend’s Levitate Music and Arts Festival who can consider it a homecoming, from regional favorites to Boston-area perennials to even Duxbury’s ...

Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...

Bob Uecker was always up for a good time. Never mind if it would get him in a bit of trouble. The tuba incident from 1964 was just another example. Over 60 years ago, Uecker made headlines not for ...

Every year in hundreds of cities around the country, musicians have been coming together for Tuba Christmas. NPR's Neda Ulaby tells us all about that bass. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: This is the tradition's ...

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 ...

Jon Hodkin is on his second tricycling tour through the Midwest as part of a musical journey up the Mississippi River. Early in his travels through Minnesota, a Lake City boat club helped ferry him ...

A young man sits alone in a room, a tuba on his lap, and blows it hard, huffing and puffing to play Snedecor’s Low Étude for Tuba Number 4. It’s a head-rattling piece in a profoundly low register — ...

"June is bustin' out all over." Of course, credit for that line belongs to Rodgers and Hammerstein and their exuberant song from the musical Carousel. And I have no doubt that genius pair would ...

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 ...