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In Kansas City, we again did two performances -- one on Dec 2 (Harvey's birthday) and on Dec. 12. Between the two days we had 711 performers, about 350 each day. Here is a photo from one of the two days:



Scott Watson, professor of tuba at the Univ. of Kansas conducted. Piston/rotary, BBb/CC, Chinese clone/OEM all existed in harmony with occasional outbreaks of decent intonation. We had two capacity audiences who greatly enjoyed the events.

How was your TubaChristmas?

PS- Happy to have any TN readers join us next year in KC.

Best wishes for the Holidays and the New Year,

Frank Byrne
Executive Director, Kansas City Symphony
and TubaChristmas performer

We had between 15-20 in Venice FL on 12/17/16.

About 140 in St Paul. I think they're going to need a bigger space pretty soon.

We had 20 in Great Falls, MT on Dec.2; 2 came from Helena and 2 down from Calgary.

While not an official TubaChristmas we had 16 players in Dublin playing 4 part carols.

58mark wrote:2017? I'll tell you in 12 months

WHOOPS! Fixed that. Thanks.

35--an all-time high--in Woodstown, South Jersey.
120 [Don't tell the Kimmel Center folks! They limit the numbers to 100 per session] in Philadelphia for the noon concert, and he was expecting 110 for the 5PM concert.

About 30+ Newport News VA...

151 in Winter Park, FL

Its always nice playing outside in December here. A crisp 75 degrees

I attended two TubaChristmases this past season, in Tennessee. First was in Pulaski, where there was six tubas and eight euphoniums for one performance to an enthusiastic audience at First United Methodist. Next was Nashville, which counted 158 total, for two packed performances, downtown at the First Baptist.

T is for tuba, T for Tennessee.

524 in NYC at Rockefeller Center. Always a great turnout and we had a special guest conductor in Brian Usifer, Music Director of Kinky Boots (and great nephew of Paul Lavalle, who conducted the very first Tuba Christmas in 1974)!