The Rusty Crayfish Brass Band plays original New Orleans-style brass music. The Rusty Crayfish Brass Band is all about having fun and connecting with audiences through their New Orleans-style brass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up in Tulsa, Greg "Coach" Fallis made it his goal to move to New Orleans and immerse himself in the Crescent City's ...

Trombone Christmas Kansas City is scheduled to take place this weekend with more than 100 trombone players outdoors at Union Station. Tuba Christmas has been around since the 1970s, so Trombone ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This 15-year-old New ...

It's hard to imagine an artist more steeped in the culture of New Orleans than Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty. Andrews grew up in the Tremé, a neighborhood that's become practically ...

Shakur Brooks has a bass line looping in his head. The eighth-grade trombonist sits on a metal chair in the band room of the Booker T. Washington Middle School for the Arts in West Baltimore, punching ...

From gold rush towns to Mardi Gras parades, brass and concert bands have been the musical backbone of Australian communities ...

Keith Frazier, bass drummer and a founding member of Rebirth Brass Band, sits in a quiet coffeeshop near the Fair Grounds Race Course on a gorgeous spring afternoon between French Quarter Festival and ...

March is Music In Our Schools Month, an annual celebration created by the National Association for Music Education. But for one "Big Red One" Soldier, it is also an opportunity to bring his passion ...

Tuba player, Kerwin "Fat" James, founding member of the New Birth Brass Band, died last week in New Orleans. For the past year Kerwin had been in a coma suffering complications from a stroke The ...

As any musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player’s chest and ...

I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band. But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!