B ATON ROUGE, La. -- Capt. Dale Dicharry, the commander of Homeland Security for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office ...

The oldest member of the Golden Band from Tigerland, has played the sousaphone for nine games now, and his popularity has ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

The sound of two brass instruments. Too loud to be on a radio or a record player. Coming from the roof of an apartment ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

Christian Cortez wears a necklace with a black and red cross on it. The cross isn’t religious in the traditional sense, though for Cortez, it might as well be. It’s a symbol for Crossmen, an ...

The LSU Golden Band from Tiger Land welcomed its new members Thursday, and one of them was born in 1959 — tuba player, Kent Broussard. Originally from LaPlace, the 66-year-old former accountant and ...

60 years ago, Jimmy took no tuba Jimmy Brennan, who's one heck of a globetrotting tuba player, intends to arrive early for a band performance Sunday at the groundbreaking for new buildings at Sonoma ...

Low, grounded sounds of tubas jumbled as prancing melodies from surrounding instruments rang through the auditorium.