On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City ... tuba holiday concert was the brainchild of Harvey Phillips, a tuba ...

Every Christmas season since, players ... tuba family, producing a warm, rich organ-like sound en masse that attracts an audience of more than a thousand who crowd around the terraces of New York ...

The tuba players mass by the hundreds every year on the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink to play carols and other festive fare, a holiday ritual now ingrained in the consciousness of New York.

wife of a tuba player, told PIX 11 News. “I think this is so nice for all the families,” an audience member, Natalie Jennings, told PIX11 News. “This is what New York is all about,” Sonya ...

Chris Wilhjelm has been the New York City TubaChristmas conductor for 20 years. Rehearsal starts just hours prior to the show, when tuba players of all ages and experiences do a quick test run.