Editing Sousaphone (section)

==Musical genres==
[[File:Jazz Funeral for Democracy - Tuba.jpg|thumb|"[[Jazz Funeral]] for Democracy" event in New Orleans]]
The sousaphone is an important fixture of the [[brass band#New Orleans|New Orleans brass band]] tradition and is still used in groups such as the [[Dirty Dozen Brass Band]] by [[Kirk Joseph]]. [[Soul Rebels Brass Band]] from New Orleans features sousaphone player Edward Lee Jr.

[[Sinaloa]], a state of [[Mexico]], has a type of music called [[banda (music)|Banda Sinaloense]], and the sousaphone is used there as a [[tuba]].

[[Damon Bryson|Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson]] from [[The Roots]] played the sousaphone on ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]''.  He now does this for ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]]''.

Nat Mcintosh is the sousaphone player and co-founder of [[Youngblood Brass Band]], who play a mixture of traditional New Orleans style brass band music and hip hop.

The [[Lemon Bucket Orkestra]], a Canadian self-described "Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Punk-Super-Party-Band", features a sousaphone as one of their instruments.

[[Sunny Jain|Red Baraat]], a Brooklyn-based [[dhol]] & brass band that fuses North Indian Bhangra with hip-hop, go-go and jazz music, features [http://www.altierimusic.com/bio.html John Altieri] on sousaphone.

In [[Israel]] there's a growing scene of brass bands that use Sousaphone for the bass function, including acts such as [[Marsh Dondurma]], [[Las Piratas Piratas]] and [[Pam Pah Orkestra]].