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The Christmas season rang in Downtown Crossing with a distinctive low note or, rather, 100 such low notes as just as many regional brass instrument players assembled for Boston’s annual TubaChristmas.

It hardly seems fair that Kelly Galarneau gets the most questions of anyone in Brass Differential and yet has the least amount of air to expend on things like casual conversation. But it’s hard to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hundreds of people braved the cold Sunday to cheer on a flock of brass players as the Denver celebrated its 42nd annual Tuba Christmas. “You can tell all ...

For the love of tubas, 100 musicians — holding their cherished instruments of all shapes and sizes — will march onto the stage at the Kimmel Center at high noon Saturday. On the stage of the ...

Lauren Cangelosi of the Tipitina's Foundation sorts through hundreds of musical instruments searching for a sousaphone among the many instruments to be donated young musicians. Early Wednesday morning ...

Julius Mckee is a member of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band in New Orleans. He's also one of the premier sousaphone players in the country. In the first of a four-part series, Mckee discusses the joy of ...