“I want to play with this band from New Orleans,” he told The ... “There goes Tuba Skinny,” a wry reference to longtime street musician Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen, who died in 2004 ...

The street band Tuba Skinny from New Orleans brought a unique crowd to the High Noon Saloon last Monday. Rather than a young, drunk crowd of college students with no sense of personal space, an older ...

(As half of New Orleans can tell you, a sousaphone is a more portable tuba ... re the St. Peter’s Orchestra,” one horn player announced. I guessed that they were seasoned band mates, judging ...

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There were white shirts and suspenders, an occasional waistcoat, even a bat-wing collar and tie, as an eight-piece New Orleans band pumped ... a huge tuba. Formed in 2009, Tuba Skinny evolved ...

Erika Lewis is a singer and musician of Tuba Skinny, a blues and ragtime band from New Orleans ... different musical influences of New Orleans, Erika’s move from blues to country, and her overall ...