Seven recordings in and Tuba Skinny have established themselves as more than revivalists. Still mining the early jazz, blues and ragtime that have made them local favorites, this New Orleans combo is ...

Somewhere on the road, I found Robin Rapuzzi traveling with Tuba Skinny. He’s a washboard player. Yeah, a washboard — like what you used to wash clothes with. Rapuzzi comes from New Orleans, along ...

The street band Tuba Skinny from New Orleans brought a unique crowd to the High Noon Saloon last Monday. Rather than a young, drunk crowd of college students with no sense of personal space, an older ...

Traditional jazz band Tuba Skinny was set to go into the studio in April — until, you know, all this stuff happened. The band decided to postpone recording its new album, which would have been its ...

Formed in in 2009, Tuba Skinny has steadily evolved from a loose collection of street musicians into a solid ensemble dedicated to bringing the traditional New Orleans sound to audiences around the ...

ARTIST: Tuba Skinny ALBUM: “Rag Band” (no label listed) Tuba Skinny is a band of traveling minstrels that will take you back in time, not to the usual oldies land of the 1950s, but way back to the ...

Singer Maria Muldaur has had New Orleans connections since she released her breakthrough solo album in 1973. “I always loved New Orleans music,” Muldaur says. “I remember when the Wild Tchoupitoulas ...

Fans who know Erika Lewis as the brassy blues singer in front of Tuba Skinny have only gotten a part of the story. On her debut solo album, Lewis, now based in Asheville, trades in her blue notes for ...