Coalition for Music Education in Canada

Celebrate Christmas by joining in the Holiday Tuba Festival.

It takes place the first week of December each year. Tuba, baritone and euphonium players decked out in tinsel and Santa hats from local schools play along side professional musicians at spectacular outdoor concerts to celebrate the holiday season. Any Canadian city or town can host their own Holiday Tuba Festival, uniting school bands, choirs, and musicians in festive spirit.

This year you can join in:

Toronto - Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Nathan Phillips Square
12-12:45pm
Click here for details and registration.

Winnipeg - Saturday, December 12, 2009
Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall
Rehearsal: 5:45pm, Performance: 7pm
Click here for details and registration.

The Coalition for Music Education in Canada has been a proud sponsor of the Holiday Tuba Festival since 1992, which demonstrates the power of music education and how music unites us all.

Download your favourite holiday songs arranged especially for tuba here. Recordings courtesy of the Manitoba Band Association and Rob Monson, band director at Glenlawn Collegiate in Winnipeg.

Arrangements are provided by Scott Irvine. Click here for a full bio.

Song	Bass	Treble	Recordings
Away In A Manger
Deck The Halls
Dreydel Melody
Frosty The Snowman
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Huron Carol
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Jingle Bells
Joy To The World
O Canada
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Hanukkah
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Ramadan Is Here
Rudolph - Let It Snow Medley
See Amid the Winter's Snow
Silent Night
The First Noel
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Winter Wonderland

	Did you Know?
	Gustave Besson built a subcontrabass tuba that was 3 metres (over 9 feet) tall? It is the largest tuba in the world. Three people are required to play it: two to hold and one to blow. Vaughan Williams wrote a concerto for bass tuba in 1954? It is the most performed tuba Concerto in the world today. The sousaphone is a tuba that encircles the player’s body? It was first made in 1899 for John Philip Sousa’s band. The earliest model had bells that opened directly upward. The first Friday in May is International Tuba Day?

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