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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white">Happy Holidays!</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br>
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<span style="background:white">We hope that you'll join us this coming Saturday for the 6th annual Commerce Tubachristmas Celebration! Anyone with a tuba, sousaphone, helicon, euphonium, baritone, alto horn, or any other close relative is welcome to participate
as we perform Christmas carols for the East Texas community. If you don't have an instrument, feel free to come out anyway and sing along with the tuba carolers!</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">This year, our guest conductor is Don Little, Regents Professor of Tuba at the University of North Texas and former tubist with the Ft. Worth Symphony and Dallas Opera. Registration runs from 10:15-11:00 AM in the Texas A&M University
- Commerce Music Building, the cost to participate is $10. </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">The performance will be at 12:30 in downtown Commerce on the historic square. There will be free donuts in the morning and hot wassail at the square. We're also happy to announce that we will have the decorating contest again
this year, so bring your festive gear! </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">For more information, please visit </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.tubachristmas.com" target="_blank">www.tubachristmas.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Jeff Baker, DMA</span></b><span style="color:black"> | <b>Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium </b></span><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="color:black">Department of Music | Texas A&M University - Commerce<br>
<a href="mailto:Jeff.Baker@tamuc.edu" target="_blank">Jeff.Baker@tamuc.edu</a></span><u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span></u><span style="color:black">PO Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429<br>
Tel. 903.886.5290 | Fax 903.486.6010 | <a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/music" target="_blank">www.tamuc.edu/music</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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