A wave of deep brass tones echoed through the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall on Saturday, Oct. 26, as Dr. P. Blake Cooper lifted his tuba and kicked off this year’s OcTUBAfest. The annual celebration ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In Old Town Albuquerque, tons of tubas filled the gazebo for a holiday performance. Hundreds gathered to hear Tuba Christmas, a collective for local musicians to connect and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...