2018 Open Enrollment Starts 12/05/2017
Although you will not receive your Open Enrollment materials until Thanksgiving, you can view 2018 rate and benefit information. If you want to receive your Open Enrollment Information early, sign up for email delivery and you will receive the information about 7-10 days earlier, receive a discount on your administrative fees and help reduce a significant amount of paper waste. Continue reading
Singer/songwriter/actor/voice actor PAUL WILLIAMS may be best-known to younger generations as “the Butcher” in this year’s summer blockbuster Baby Driver, or for his 2014 Grammy win for Album of the Year with Daft Punk. The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers is proud to announce him as an honoree at the 2017 ASMAC Golden Score Awards, along with his Love Boat-theme collaborator, composer/arranger CHARLES FOX.
The event takes place Sunday, December 3, 2017, 5 p.m. at the Hilton Universal City Hotel. Continue reading
AFM Local 47 has been in discussions with Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in Los Angeles, to try and bring them into an appropriate AFM contract. Unfortunately they have not agreed to sign on to a union agreement.
Their next concert takes place Nov. 18, 2017 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. If you are contacted to perform with Kaleidoscope, please be aware that at this time it is a non-union date with no union contract protections. We recommend that AFM members not participate until such a contract is in place.
Any musician performing at a major venue like Disney Hall deserves to earn a fair wage and benefits in line with industry standard. By making orchestras available for dirt cheap, employers come to expect bargain rates that undermine musicians’ ability to pay their bills.
Members contacted to perform with Kaleidoscope are encouraged to alert the President’s office at 323.993.3181.
As a labor union, American Federation of Musicians Local 47 was founded on the core principles of fairness, dignity, respect, and equality for all people. No one should ever be subjected to sexual or physical harassment or abuse of any kind in the workplace, and we commend the many women and men who have courageously spoken out and shared their stories of sexual abuse and harassment in the entertainment industry. Continue reading
“Halo Wars 2” video game composers Gordy Haab, Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White, along with audio director Paul Lipson, took to the stage at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles on the evening of Oct. 25, 2017 to discuss share their vision and process for creating the score for one of the world’s largest and most beloved game franchises. Continue reading
This year’s Los Angeles Jazz Society Jazz Tribute Awards Concert takes place Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Montalban in Hollywood. Continue reading
“Piece of Legislation” by Local 47 member Clifford J. Tasner, AFM Local 47 musicians, SAG-AFTRA singers, with animation by Cole Montminy.
Learn more about SB 562 to bring healthcare to ALL Californians at healthyca.org.
2/6/1961 – 11/4/2017
Member. Timpani
Alan Wesley Reinecke, professional percussionist and computer technologist, died Nov. 4 at home in Arcadia with his wife, parents and sister at his side. He was 56, and had been diagnosed in April with pancreatic cancer. Continue reading
Overture Online
November 2017
The LA Orchestra Fellowship
Three Los Angeles organizations join forces to help address broad lack of diversity in American orchestras
Introducing: 47 Strong
Building a more powerful and effective union for Los Angeles musicians
GRAMMY Updates
Voting moves online and more changes for 2017 voting period
Golfing for a Good Cause
Music Fund of Los Angeles 16th annual fall classic to raise funds for musicians in financial distress
and more!
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