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 Sinaloense, and the sousaphone is used there as a tuba. Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson from The Roots plays the sousaphone on Late Night with 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. Red Baraat, a Brooklyn-based dhol & brass band that fuses North Indian Bhangra with hip-hop, go-go and jazz music, features John Altieri on sousaphone. Notable players Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, was a sousaphone player who played well enough to join the band celebrating his election. Jeanie Schroder of the band DeVotchKa plays sousaphone on several of the band's songs. Tuba Gooding Jr. (Damon Bryson) plays sousaphone for The Roots See also Cornu (horn), an ancient Roman brass instrument that curved around the player's body Saxtuba References External links Virginia Tech Music Dictionary: Sousaphone All the Instruments: Sousaphone Sousaphone History, by Ian Church: Sousaphone-ologist American musical instruments B-flat instruments John Philip Sousa Marching band instruments Tubas