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Daniel, Alejandro and Fabian Manzano at the Gulf Gate apparel shop, These Quiet Sounds. “It’s been a lot of having to prove yourself to other people,” Fabian Manzano says. “Which is crazy, because you think if you have a million subscribers, (you wouldn’t have to prove anything).”

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The Sarasota-based Manzano brothers of Boyce Avenue shot their first video in their parents’ garage. Now, they have more YouTube subscribers than Lady GaGa.

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n April, Boyce Avenue returned from headlining a 25-show European tour with nearly one-third of the dates sold-out. At the end of the tour, the band members did a press junket in New York City with People magazine, Seventeen magazine and a performance on “Good Morning America.”

The Manzano brothers are no strangers to the limelight. They make up the third most-watched band on YouTube with more subscribers than Lady Gaga and Beyonce.

With stats like that, you’d think they’d have some well-deserved air of arrogance or entitlement, like other celebrities. But Alejandro Manzano, Fabian Manzano and Daniel Manzano are humble and recognize where they came from — Sarasota.

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// ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT They sit around a table at These Quiet Sounds in Gulf Gate. It’s their side-project apparel-anddesign company and the most likely place to spot at least one of the members when they aren’t on tour.

Since April, they’ve been falling back into a routine. The eldest brother, Daniel, 33, likes to cook locally sourced food for his wife and three little boys (he hopes they’ll be the second generation of Boyce Avenue). Fabian, 29, and his wife operate These Quiet Sounds, but he also likes boxing. And, the youngest, Alejandro, 27, is into movies — particularly film scores.

Music has always been his thing.

Alejandro first learned to play guitar for a variety show at Pine View School. He signed his brothers up to accompany him. In three months, they were able to play “Now & Forever” by Richard Marx .

The guys didn’t start playing as Boyce Avenue until 2005. Fabian and Alejandro were attending University of Florida at the time.

Daniel had graduated from Harvard and was at the University of Florida in a post-graduate program. They started playing shows at bars.

“We got $50 a person and we

were like, ‘yes!’” Daniel says.

All three laugh at the memory of how they got their start. Playing in college bars to drunken audiences until 2 a.m. is exactly the dues-paying non-YouTube sensation bands must go through.

The brothers gained some fans in this traditional sense for two years. But in September 2007, they tried a modern approach.

They hoped to go viral by releasing a cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella” the day before her Video Music Awards performance. They knew that song would have high search trends.

By early 2008, Boyce Avenue had more than 100,000 views on the video and had garnered a following for their covers. Boyce Avenue had gone viral. The numbers have gradually grown to more than a billion views on their YouTube channel today. It was as much intentional strategy as it was luck.

“In a way, we did skip some steps, but we still had to claw our way up,” Fabian says.

The raw talent was always there, even in those early, shoddy, self-filmed videos with Alejandro sitting in front of a sheet backdrop in his parents’ garage. Now, Boyce Avenue uses a professional production team to film its covers of everything from Bruno Mars to “The Office” theme song.

“Faithfully” by Journey Yet, they have still had to fight with mu“Stop This Train” by John Mayer sic industry leaders to “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls prove their worth. Not many concert promot“Fix You” by Coldplay ers and venue owners “Yesterday” by The Beatles want to give live shows to YouTube sensations.

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“Not every (YouTube sensation) pans out in the same way,” Daniel says. “Not everyone with a million subscribers can sell X number of tickets.”

And to get people interested in their original songs, they must intersperse covers of popular music. No one will search for a song they haven’t heard of, so it keeps them building a fan base.

The group already has lots of fans. In 2009, Boyce Avenue booked a show in the Philippines.

The brothers were taken aback to walk into what they describe as a Beatles-esque moment full of screaming girls. It turns out their Filipino fans love YouTube, acoustic music and Spanish influence in music. (The Manzanos are

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The Manzanos attribute their grandfather, Luis Rivera, with influencing them at a young age. He was a classical guitar player. Here he is with Alejandro Manzano.

Puerto Rican.)

The three brothers kept proving people wrong. In 2009, the Mercury Lounge, a New York City venue, gave them a Monday night slot and wouldn’t pre-sell tickets.

“They basically set us up to fail because (they thought) no one knew us,” Alejandro says.

Yet even in the freezing winter weather fans lined up around the corner. The group would go on to sell out the Hammersmith Apollo in London in 2012 on the same stage where the artists they frequently cover typically play, such as John Mayer, Kings of Leon and Coldplay.

“We grew up in this quiet, sleepy town, and we’re all introverted, but that doesn’t mean we

aren’t passionate or that we don’t create loud, impactful art that makes a big statement,” Fabian says.

The brothers are content living in Sarasota. It’s where they want to raise their families. Their apparel store is here, as well as their studio and their parents, Roberto and Ileana Manzano.

They stay true to their roots.

It’s not only in the name Boyce Avenue — a tribute to the street on which they lived as children.

The guys brought their parents on their recent European tour.

“I think that (humility) is intrinsically in us,” Alejandro says. “It doesn’t matter how big we get. We could get as big as Coldplay and we will still be the same people.”

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Campbell finds her voice in new production IF YOU GO ‘Black Is The Color Of My Voice’ When: Runs through June 22 Where: Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, 1646 10th Way Cost: Tickets are $29.50 Info: Call 366-1505 or visit wbttsrq.org.

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“Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe was very grassroots but fun,” says Apphia Campbell of the first year. “It was nice to be a part of something at the beginning — I have more appreciation for it now that I started my own theater group.” and then I just kind of found myself on the same path,” she says.

For the past five years, Campbell has been living in Shanghai and working as a singer-actressproducer-writer. In fact, she selfproduced “Black Is The Color Of My Voice” there and saw a

sold-out (nearly 130-seat house) eight-day run.

Shanghai is full of people from around the world, and a lot of people speak English there.

Campbell has developed a following — she even gets recognized on the street.

Prior to Shanghai, Campbell lived for four years in New York, where, she says, “If you don’t sing, you don’t work.” She was looking for a sense of direction when she got a job teaching arts in Shanghai. The school went out of business after a year. As a

backup plan, she started playing gigs at local bars, restaurants and venues. On the side, she acted and started a small theater company, “Play the Spotlight,” which has produced a few of the productions she has written.

Campbell is happy to return home to share her newest production with the same audience who saw her get her start.

Following this run, she’ll head to the largest arts festival in the world, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Campbell’s production is one of 3,000-plus shows being produced — hers was one of the few to be spotlighted.

Campbell certainly found the experience she was looking for abroad; she found her voice.

“I feel like my journey is kind of complete,” she says. “It’s kind of interesting because I’m wondering myself, ‘Where I’m going to go next?’ There’s always a new adventure.”

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Apphia Campbell’s story mirrors famous jazz singer Nina Simone’s. Neither started out as a singer. Simone wanted to be a concert pianist, and Campbell wanted to be an actress. But singing became a necessary career for both.

Campbell, as a founding member of Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, last performed in Sarasota nearly 10 years ago. She made her return to the theater June 10, when she opened the one-woman show she wrote loosely based on Simone’s life, “Black Is The Color Of My Voice.”

This musical production takes place during the three days Mena Bordeaux, the character Campbell based on Simone, spends in Liberia to cope with the loss of her father. It’s a plot pulled straight from Simone’s life.

Bordeaux’s father dies before they reconcile from a fight they had a year prior. Per a witch doctor’s recommendation, she takes a three-day sabbatical with no smoking, drinking or talking to anyone as a way to heal from the guilt. There’s a handful of popular Simone songs interspersed throughout, such as: “I Put a Spell on You,” “Sea Lion Woman,” and “The Look of Love.”

“I think I connect a little more with her because maybe I see myself in (her story),” Campbell says.

Simone eventually moved abroad to France and Liberia.

Campbell has a similar story.

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“Pump Boys and Dinettes” is now serving customers in Sarasota. The odd-sounding franchise is actually a show at Florida Studio Theatre.

The plot? Well, that’s not really on a menu. It’s a revue of original material, not a traditional musical with an overarching storyline. The menu is filled with heaping helpings of good, old-time rock ’n’ roll with a side order of country.

The setting is the Double Cupp Diner and the Pump Boys Garage — an improbable combination of dinette and garage in South Carolina — that serves pies or gasoline, depending on customer demand.

The six hard-working characters include the garage’s co-owners, Jim (Ben Mackel) and L.M. (Randy Glass); their assistants: the taciturn, unsmiling Eddie (Jamie Mohamdein) and self-effacing Jackson (T. Scott Ross); and the two sisters who run the dinette portion of the establishment — Rhetta Cupp (Charlynn Carter) and Prudie Cupp (Sarah Hund). But there’s precious little pie-slinging or grease monkeying going on here. This gas station/dinette is equipped with a full array of musical instruments, including a stand-up bass in an old phone booth. And these characters put them all to work.

This is basically a revue of original Southern-fried songs. As noted, there’s no storyline. But each song has a story to tell — and the stories are all told in character.

Jackson is seemingly possessed by Jerry Lee Lewis when he loses his inhibitions (and bow tie) on the raunchy “Mona.”

Jim, in turn, channels Elvis in “Drinkin’ Shoes.” (He has an eye for the ladies but also mourns his mother, as we discover in the touching ballad, “Mamaw.”) The ladies have an eye for L.M. — especially Prudie — though L.M. seems unnaturally shy for a piano player. His Dolly Parton fixation (as

Fifty years ago I was studying at the Hartt College of Music, and my parents were testing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico here in Sarasota. They felt they’d found paradise when they realized Sarasota had a chamber music festival. In the next couple of years, they recognized some of my high school and conservatory classmates playing chamber music here.

Now, 50 years later, my parents are gone, but the great Sarasota music-making lives on with those classmates of mine, who are now faculty members of the Sarasota Music Festival, and I, sitting in the audience, writing reviews.

On June 7, Larry Rachleff led a lean, keen, brilliant orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Second Symphony that wasn’t my father’s (or my) Beethoven Second. For those of us used to romantic Beethoven, Larry this was true classical music: Rachleff transparent, youthful, exuberant, powerful and stylish. Conducting without a score, Rachleff brought out inner voices I hadn’t heard before and, believe me, I know this symphony.

The larghetto from this work served as the “filler” music on WQXR’s “Symphony Hall,” a program I hosted during my shift, five nights a week for more years than I like to mention. The recording we used was thick and lush, romantic and opulent. What we heard tonight was spare and lean. It threw me at first, but then I realized this is Beethoven. Early Beethoven. It’s from the Classical period. It’s not romantic. It’s not Brahms. And Rachleff and his wonderfully talented orchestra, made of supertalented students who were like me and my friends 50 years ago, brought out

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“Pump Boys and Dinettes” runs through June 29, at Florida Studio Theatre. explained in “The Night Dolly Parton was Almost Mine”) helps explain why. The unrequited Prudie pours out her frustration in the torchy “The Best Man.” Jim and Rhetta, meanwhile, are officially an item — although his roving eye leads him astray in pursuit of a, well, catfish, as we discover in the gospel harmonies of “Fisherman’s Prayer.”

(Rhetta sets him straight with “Be Good or Be Gone.”) Both sisters wow the audience with the honky-tonk sass of “Tips” — a more than rhetorical demand to the FST audience. At the end, the cast appropriates a recently repaired Winnebago for a muchneeded “Vacation” in Florida but come back to work in time for “Closing Time.”

What kind of music is this, anyway? Well, as a waitress once said, “We got both kinds — country and Western.” There’s also rockabilly, ballads, blues numbers and Southern rock. No camp, no parody, no patronization, no by-the-numbers rip-offs. The songs are all great — and true to their Southern roots.

The musician/actors do an excellent job. But this is more than a job — and their excellence is more than technical. We’re talking real chemistry and heart. Jason Edwards (who played Jim in the original 2001 FST production) directs with a sure hand and an unfailing sense of fun. It’s good-time music, folks.

Judging by the hooting and hollering, the opening-night audience had a good time.

— Marty Fugate

sounds that reminded me how amazing music can be because, when it’s played well, it’s never stagnant or inert. It has life, new life. And that’s why teaching festivals like the one we have here are so important.

We all learn from them, and they keep us young and vibrant, like the music.

The concert opened with a conductorless reading of Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in B minor from “L’estro Armonico.”

Featuring a quartet of violinists — veterans Joseph Silverstein, Ani Kavafian and Alexander Kerr, with Chapman University student Emily Uematsu — and a baroque chamber ensemble, there were a few moments of fizzy pitch but, for the most part, it was a straightforward performance with each of the musicians listening intently to each other for cues and colors.

Ravel’s “Le tombeau de Couperin” with Rachleff (again scoreless) at the helm had a wonderfully brisk feeling with sweeping tempos and lots of forward motion in the opening prelude and well-known and beloved final rigaudon.

After intermission and before the Beethoven one of the students spoke eloquently and succinctly. He told us how exciting it was to work with such famous musicians. He called them, “household names” and said he was bowled over by sharing “an elevator in a hotel with them and talking about Mozart.”

Those household names are the people who, 50 years ago were those kids, gazing adoringly at other household names who’ve since left their marks on chamber and orchestral music as we hear it today.

The Sarasota Music Festival is celebrating an important anniversary this season. It’s thrilling to think that 50 years from today, some of those students who were playing Beethoven’s Second tonight will be the household names teaching yet-to-be-born musicians of the future.

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