Well, we think you should buy a tuba. Here’s why. Technically, this tuba is a sousaphone, a valved brass instrument with the same tube length and musical range as other tubas. A sousaphone is ...

LDB brandishes a powerful brass frontline of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, with a funky backline of drums and sousaphone. Combining the poetic ferocity of Billa Camp with stellar vocal harmonies, ...

But it’s hard to miss “the hardest-blowing man” in the New Orleans-style brass band. He’s the one playing the sousaphone. Or is it the tuba? “That’s the most common question I get.

Early entrants to Spring Weekend 2025 were greeted by a curious sight: a brass band hefting sousaphones and trombones, dancing and playing a 45-minute set on the lawn, rousing attendees with their ...

On a recent Friday in June, the sounds of the sousaphone, trumpet, trombone, saxophone and drums reverberated through a streetcar rolling through Kansas City’s River Market. Members of the Sass ...

Kerry “Fatman” Hunter, who played bass drum in Preservation Brass, and sousaphone player Julius McKee tossed the idea to trumpeter and cornetist Kevin Louis, and he bought in. Louis had the ...

Bad Cactus Brass Band is releasing their first album ... Messer introduced himself to Swift, who plays sousaphone on "Back for Another Round," but has since moved to Los Angeles." ...

Brass Queens' latest album ... (trumpet), Elizabeth Arce (trombone), Stephanie Young (trombone), Nora Nalepka (sousaphone) and Ashley Baier (drums) — talked about the joys and challenges ...

Inspired by the soulful sounds of New Orleans, the Brass Queens’ band consists of one sousaphone, drums (both line and set), two trombones, one alto sax, one tenor sax, three trumpets and a whole lot ...

A classically trained soprano, O’Brien picked up the sousaphone just two years ago and now finds joy in leading a band where mistakes and imperfection are accepted. Sass-A-Brass recruits ...