Allen Slater, retired Flathead High School band director, conducts the band Monday for the TubaChristmas concert at the Red Lion Hotel. Slater has been organizing the Kalispell event for the last 25 years. (Heidi Desch/Daily Inter Lake)
December 25, 2022
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Tubas oom-pah into Christmas
The first TubaChristmas was conducted by Paul Lavalle in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink on Sunday, Dec. 22, 1974.