FLINT, MI — Something big and brassy will be missing from this year’s celebration of Christmas in Flint — the collective rich, low tones of about 100 tubas and euphoniums at the Flint Farmers’ Market.

Officials with the University of Michigan-Flint Music Department, which organizes the annual Tuba Christmas event, said in a Facebook post that this year’s performance, scheduled for Dec. 13, has been canceled due to space restrictions at the market.

Kat Oak, a communications specialist for UM-Flint’s College of Arts, Sciences & Education, said the decision to cancel came after market officials requested to cap the number of participants.

In recent years, 80 to 100 tubists have joined in the event, Oak said in an email to MLive-The Flint Journal.

“We hadn’t planned for or set up systems

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