Friday evening, the Marching Illini’s sousaphone players helped raise money for the Crisis Nursery by running in a 5k during the Illinois Marathon weekend hosted by the Christie Clinic. This was the ...

Alex Kirkeeng has been training for the Illinois Marathon 5K for months, but he's been training for more than just 3.1 miles. "I figure if I can run 5 miles, hopefully I can run 3.1 with a sousaphone, ...

The Marching Illini sousaphone section will participate in the Christie Clinic Illinois 5k Run/Walk on Friday to raise money for Crisis Nursery — with their instruments. For nearly a decade, the ...

Two Virginia State University band members charged with stealing sousaphones from a Newport News high school were identified after their band director recognized them in a surveillance video, police ...

What do you get when you cross a sousaphone with a microphone? We don't know -- but it sure does make for a great news story. KSAZ reporter Cory McCloskey suffered a moment of embarrassment when he ...

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them, though, those ...

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Sousaphones, typically relegated to the remote reaches of the band room and back areas of the stage, marched into the limelight at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday afternoon, hijacking center ...

Reunited, and it feels so good. That’s the memorable chorus from a late-1970s Peaches and Herb hit. And while the song probably doesn’t translate well on the sousaphone, for Tacoma’s Pat Van Haren, a ...