Music Showcase News

Music Showcase and FAOPA street team was a vendor at the Tampa Children’s Expo at the Florida State Fairgrounds on March 23.

If you played the recorder in first grade, you should thank your parents and music teacher now. A study conducted by researchers at Concordia University in Canada, the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany and McGill University in Canada found that musical training during early childhood helps create brain changes that can last for a person’s whole life.
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The Hunt Acoustic Project. On guitar and vocals is Seve Measter, cello is Tegan Galadriel, violin is Erika Chinander, and Brit Martin on cello. Robert Hunt is the instructor.
Performing at a dinner for the Brandon Chamber of Commerce on 2-1-13. Left to right is Seve Meastes (guitar/vocals), Tegan Galadriel Pennington (cello), Erika Chinander (violin), Brit Martin (cello) and Robert Hunt (teacher at Music Showcase)


Performing at a dinner for the Brandon Chamber of Commerce on 2-1-13


Performing at a dinner for the Brandon Chamber of Commerce on 2-1-13


Performing at New Years Eve Show


Performing at Kids Fair at the State Fairgrounds

Bravo to Julian Silva! The Music Showcase student is preparing to tour with a musical theatre company that will perform across the country and in Canada. 9-year-old Julian Silva of Plant City will be playing the role of Gavroche in the musical “Les Miserables” with NETworks Presentations. Silva will leave February 9 to rehearse with the group and then will take to the stage for the first time at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota on March 5-10th. The tour will also be performing in Canada in the summer.

Silva stared singing opera at the age of 5 and then started taking singing lessons at Music Showcase in Brandon in 2009. The following year, he played Aladdin in the production of “Aladdin KIDS” with the Florida Academy of the Performing Arts at Music Showcase. He then took on the roles of Mushu in “Mulan,” White rabbit in “Alice In Wonderland,” and sang with the Academy’s GLEE showchoir. Theatre Director Joy Rogers says she knew from the beginning that Silva was talented. “His singing voice was outstanding and he had a fabulous stage presence.” He also represented the Academy several times when singing the National Anthem before sports games at USF. Silva won Novemberfest Idol at Nativity Catholic Church in 2010 and was an acting finalist and overall child singer winner this month at the Actors, Model, and Talent for Christ Sine Winter Contest.

You can check out some of Silva’s performances on Youtube like singing Amazing Grace at the National Day of Prayer at Yankee Stadium in Tampa last May and playing a modern day drummer boy in a Christmas production at the Crossing Church in Tampa.

Showcase Players, Director Remember Zachary Douglas McCarthy
Wristbands and a program tribute are ways the Showcase Players from Music Showcase in Brandon are remembering Zachary Douglas McCarthy, the 16-year-old voice student from Bloomingdale who died in a car accident Jan. 2.

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Showcase Players Director Helps Students Shine On Stage and Off
Miguel Oquendo talked about his role as a music educator and musical theater director after the Jan. 26 performance of “Parade,” staged by the Showcase Players from the Florida Academy of Performing Arts, in residence at Music Showcase in Brandon.

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Showcase Players On Stage With ‘Parade’ at the James McCabe Theater
In residence at Music Showcase in Brandon, the Showcase Players, through the Florida Academy of Performing Arts, is on stage this month and next with “Parade” at the James McCabe Theater in Valrico.

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Thank you for making the
Christmas Festival such a blast!

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Thank you to all our 2012 Breast Cancer Sponsors.

	Space Walk of Brandon (813) 681 8722 www.herecomesfun.com
	Brandon Transmission (813) 689 1215 www.brandontransmissionservices.com
	Florida Embroidery (813) 662 4819 www.floridaembroideryonline.com
	Allstate (813) 634 7100 www.allstate.com
	Buca di Beppo (813) 681 8461 www.bucadibeppo.com
	Ellis Plumbing Inc. (813) 626 7261
	New Day Church (813) 681 8239 www.newdayministries.org

Thanks to all who donated funds and services to our Breast Cancer Patient.
Music Showcase awarded breast cancer patient Debbie Morey of Riverview more than 2-thousand dollars on Friday, November 9th. The check presentation took place at Music Showcase at 402 Oakfield Drive. The check totaled $2106.00 raised from fundraisers that Music Showcase held throughout the month of October. October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Music Showcase raised the funds by selling pink ribbons, cookies, cupcakes, and pens. Music Showcase also held a kids fall festival and Halloween Party on October 20, 2012.

Music Showcase sought nominations for its fundraising dollars and selected Ms. Morey as its winner. Ms. Morey’s friend Nikole Whitehead submitted the nomination. Whitehead wrote that Ms. Morey is now undergoing treatment with an experimental drug for stage 4 breast cancer. Before this, Ms. Morey’s 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia and is now in remission. Ms. Morey has two other children…one serves in the Navy and the other has Down Syndrome and needs 24-hour care at home. So, Ms. Morey is used to struggles. Whitehead writes that Ms. Morey stays positive and sews quilts and donates them to the children’s cancer center at St. Joseph’s Hospital where her daughter had received treatment.

From the left to the right is : Danielle Battaglia, Owner Heather Stump, Paula Gaskins, Patient Debbie Morey, Debra Campos, Terri Reynolds.