A special concert is celebrating the holiday season and the tuba. NewsHour's Tim McPhillips reports on the role of this versatile booming brass instrument in the music we all love. It wasn't the famed ...

You know the scene: chestnuts roasting on a crackling open fire, stockings hung by the chimney with care, presents nestled under a brilliantly lit tree … and the dulcet oom-pah-pah of a tuba. Okay, ...

Merry Tuba Christmas was conceived in 1974 by Harvey Phillips as a tribute to his teacher and mentor, William J. Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. The annual celebration honors Bell’s ...

Paul Bruce plays his tuba Dec. 16 during the annual TubaChristmas concert at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell. (Heidi Desch/Daily Inter Lake) Allen Slater, retired Flathead High School band director, ...

will gather at the Lakeside High School Performing Arts Center on Saturday to perform holiday music. The Merry TubaChristmas concert begins at 1 p.m., under the direction of Chris Sherman. "This is an ...

David Carroll remembers driving from New Lenox to Chicago in 1989 to attend his first TubaChristmas — a concert of tubas, sousaphones, baritone horns and euphoniums. He was just 16 years old. For ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Symphony celebrated its annual TubaChristmas holiday concert Tuesday afternoon on the Crown Center Square. The nationwide event, which has taken place annually in ...

Indiana’s annual Merry TubaChristmas concert is coming to town at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Fisher Auditorium. The free, public event will feature roughly 100 tuba and ...

The Snowbelt Symphony Orchestra will present “Simply Strings…and Tuba” at 4 p.m. Feb. 18 at New Promise Church, 8671 Euclid Chardon Road in Kirtland. The concert, using only the strings of the ...