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 ...

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 ...

Butchy Austin, one of Brass Solidarity's leaders, plays sousaphone at their July 17, 2023 performance at George Floyd Square in south Minneapolis. In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd ...

100 such low notes as just as many regional brass instrument players assembled for Boston’s annual TubaChristmas. The tuba, sousaphone and euphonium players assembled dressed in their holiday ...

Since its inception in 2020, when the country went into a pademic lockdown, Philadelphia brass band Snacktime has provided much needed live entertainment. Sousaphone player Sam Gellerstein founded the ...

Over the decades, these low brass love fests spread to cities across ... more curvaceous marching band version known as the sousaphone. “Some of them actually have double bells, and we've ...

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 ...