The Tuba Christmas Website got a Facelift

[bort2.0]

Hey Brett,
Where you been?

Same-same. Just been taking a break.

[TriStateFans]

and magically the rednecks in the back - who play their sousaphones way too loud and play the first tuba part or even the first euphonium part - will get lost on the way and won't show up.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!!!!!!!!

[gocsick]

and magically the rednecks in the back - who play their sousaphones way too loud and play the first tuba part or even the first euphonium part - will get lost on the way and won't show up.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!!!!!!!!

Be careful you might get yelled at for making a joke!

[TriStateFans]

and magically the rednecks in the back - who play their sousaphones way too loud and play the first tuba part or even the first euphonium part - will get lost on the way and won't show up.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!!!!!!!!

Be careful you might get yelled at for making a joke!

Who was making a joke?

[poomshanka]

I am already missing the list them all by date option.

Yes, and I don't seem to see dates in the map detail pop-up when you click on a location. Am I missing something?

[graybach]

I am already missing the list them all by date option.

Yes, and I don't seem to see dates in the map detail pop-up when you click on a location. Am I missing something?

I used my phone and looked at the one for Nashville, Tennessee, which is the one near my hometown. At least for Nashville, when the map detail popup appeared, it was scrollable. I scrolled down with my finger and the date was at the very bottom. I tried it on my laptop and I could scroll with the mouse and see all the info. The date is the last thing listed if they have one.


Event
NASHVILLE
Time
11:00 AM
Location
First Baptist Church
Address
108 7th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
Parking
Free parking in lot behind Church.
Conductor
Garnett R. Davis
Registration Time
8:00 AM
Registration Location
First Baptist Fellowship Hall at basement level
Rehersal Time
9:00 AM
Rehersal Location
First Baptist Church - Sanctuary
Performer Details
I-40 to Broadway. Broadway to 7th Ave. Turn right through underground tunnel just past 7th Ave. to basement entrance. Wear bright, festive, holiday colors and decorate your instrument. Performer registration is $10.00 USD and includes one (1) 2024 TubaChristmas® commemorative button.
Coordinator Name
Garnett R. Davis
Coordinator Phone
615-714-0247
Coordinator Email
grtuba@yahoo.com
Coordinator 2 Name
Nancy Holland
Coordinator 2 Phone
615-419-2837
Event ID
1704460
Date
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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[TriStateFans]

There is one not far from me (Ottumwa, IA) and I've talked to the coordinator, planning to go.

The real question now is whether I should take my upright or be that "redneck with the fiberglass sousaphone drowning everybody out"?

Tough choice!

[bloke]

re: sousaphone blasticulators in the back

The point of these is NOT "the music".

YET, the point is also NOT to "screw up the music".

[Coltasaurus]

I haven't played at a TC since I was a kid in the 80's. I'm going to try and hit a couple in the DFW area this year!

[humBell]

I haven't played at a TC since I was a kid in the 80's. I'm going to try and hit a couple in the DFW area this year!

If memory serves, aren't They off by a day so you could attend both? And late in the season... something like the last weekend before the holiday? (this being Dallas and Fort Worth, respectively) Not that i have been to either, but i eyed the listing speculatively, wondering what it might be like visiting folk in the area for them.

But probably i shan't make it..

[Coltasaurus]

I haven't played at a TC since I was a kid in the 80's. I'm going to try and hit a couple in the DFW area this year!

If memory serves, aren't They off by a day so you could attend both? And late in the season... something like the last weekend before the holiday? (this being Dallas and Fort Worth, respectively) Not that i have been to either, but i eyed the listing speculatively, wondering what it might be like visiting folk in the area for them.

But probably i shan't make it..

I'm near Denton so I was thinking the Denton and Dallas events, but no dates listed. The Allen event says the 14th, so between the three of them hopefully a couple are on different days.

[bloke]

This is where the Memphis one will be this year.
I don't have a conflict, but what you're looking at is the Murder Map (no assaults, no armed robberies, no burglaries, no carjackings, no rapes, ONLY THE MURDERS)...so just imagine how much of those other things there would be in that map...You wouldn't be able to read the street names.

The place to park is inside a dark parking garage...





Merry Christmas, y'all.

[Craig F]

This is where the Memphis one will be this year.
I don't have a conflict, but what you're looking at is the Murder Map

Maybe if they changed it to the Dosey Doe Tuba Christmas, they'd get enough funding for a better venue.

[bloke]

This is where the Memphis one will be this year.
I don't have a conflict, but what you're looking at is the Murder Map

Maybe if they changed it to the Dosey Doe Tuba Christmas, they'd get enough funding for a better venue.

That's supposed to be the "in" place. Basically it was a gigantic Sears facility which was a combination of a ground floor and basement very large retail store and all the floors above it were the regional catalog warehouse and order processing plant as well as the Sears credit union and anything else. It was one of seven regional ones across the country. They basically gutted it in the middle to make this big (TALL!) open space and left all the floors in a whole bunch of the rest of it that are being bit by bit rented out as offices. I think I may have heard they were turning some of those in to apartments. My Dad's office was on the second floor above the main entrance and had three windows which are still in place. He was the president of the credit union and was also the boss over a couple hundred folks.

Anyway, like most of Memphis it's just too dangerous, and people who have remained behind in Memphis remind me very much of the Eloi in the c. 1960 movie version of H.G. Wells novel "The Time Machine". To give you an idea of what has happened to Memphis, when I was a little boy the city proper had topped 500,000 population and was growing rapidly. These days - 60 yesrs later, it has fallen below 600,000 in Memphis proper, even with a ton of more square miles annexed. It's one of those cities that is dying a slow death. Very few people showed up to vote for mayor a couple of years ago (when clearly one of the choices was a very Law and Order candidate - who didn't win), yet this year - when they voted for President - they also voted for a bunch of "gun control" stuff (that won't be legal, because it is against state law). They're pretty silly, and in total denial.
Living about forty miles outside the outskirts of the last suburb is close enough for me, thanks very much.

[Mark]

This is where the Memphis one will be this year.

When I was at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) my friends and I would walk to the Sears to buy stuff.

[Craig F]

@bloke Yikes, sounds like Detroit part deux.

[bloke]

This is where the Memphis one will be this year.

When I was at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) my friends and I would walk to the Sears to buy stuff.

I believe that colleges like Southwestern and universities like Memphis State change their names for a reason. I believe that anytime that any organization changes its name, it's trying to cloak some negative things that have occurred - probably in the recent past.

Southwestern was probably pretty liberal back in the 1940s through the 1960s, but more classical liberal and not euphemism liberal. It was a good school and that was a good neighborhood between there and the Sears building. (I'm not going to make comments about it currently, because two or three people who always like to chime in would be triggered.)
For the same reasons, I always state that I graduated from Memphis State University, rather than using the name change that occurred after I graduated. I do it for the same reasons, in addition to the phenomenon of "grade inflation" (ie. it being easier and easier for students to achieve higher and harder grade marks as time passes) which has occurred across the board in academia in the United States. I believe my "summa cum laude" diploma (even though my degree was nothing more than a ridiculously easy-schmeazy music education degree) means more from (even) the 1970s then one would today, though one from the 1950s would mean a good bit more.

[andycat]

We don't do Tuba Christmas over here really, but I'd love to get some of the charts as 4 of us (2 euph/ EEb, BBb) are doing some charity gigs this year raising money for a family member who's just been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.

Happy to pay, just need digital downloads to print off!

Any ideas?