{"id":89367,"date":"2025-12-16T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89367\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:45:12","slug":"it-just-isnt-christmas-season-until-the-tubas-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/89367\/","title":{"rendered":"It just isn&#8217;t Christmas season until the tubas play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Longtime residents will tell you it isn&#8217;t the Christmas season until the tubas play.<\/p>\n<p>Scripps News digital content producer Shane Rackley helped &#8220;blow&#8221; in the holidays along with a crowd of fellow tubists at the 34th annual Corpus Christi Tuba Christmas Concert. Yes, tubists is a word.<\/p>\n<p>I joined the gang for the concert, which was held at the Plains Capital Bank Building on Shoreline. Similar concerts were held across the U.S. today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this was a nationwide movement. Harvey Phillips was a famous tuba player and his teacher was Bill Bell, who&#8217;s a famous tuba player born on Christmas day. And they decided to honor him after he died by having tuba Christmas,&#8221; said Kippy Edge, Tuba Christmas emcee.<\/p>\n<p>There were just 40 tuba players, or tubists, for the very first Tuba Christmas concert. This year about 200 tuba players took part in the tradition.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Longtime residents will tell you it isn&#8217;t the Christmas season until the tubas play.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-89367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}