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August 2025 Overture Online

August 2025 Overture Online: Strategies to Future-Proof a Music Career in the AI Era

Inside This Issue:
  • Cover Story: Strategies to Future-Proof a Music Career in the AI Era
  • AFM Local 47 2025 General Election: Nominating Petitions Now Available
  • Member Spotlight: Susanna Hoffs
  • Congrats Local 47 2025 Emmy Award Nominees!
  • Results of Voting at July General Membership Meeting
  • Musicians Rally in Support of Stephen Colbert
  • 2026 GRAMMY Awards Online Entry Period Now Open
  • Action Alert: Donate to Defend the NEA and Support the Arts 
  • LA Fed Hosts Largest-Ever Non-Violent Direct Action Training
  • CA Labor President Lorena Gonzalez Appointed to Lead Efforts on AI, Automation, Worker Privacy 
  • Union Membership = Affordable College Degrees
  • Audition Notices: LA Youth Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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July 2025 Overture Online

July 2025 Overture Online: Summer in the City

Inside This Issue:

  • Summer in the City: Music & Concerts + Calls to Action
  • Next General Membership Meeting 7/28: Special Election & Resolutions
  • AFM Local 47 2025 Triennial General Election Announcement
  • Member Spotlight: Weird Al
  • Money After the Credits: How FMSMF Helps Get Film Musicians Paid – Again
  • Chris Hillman’s ‘Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond’
  • Score Study Master Class: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho” – The Orchestrations of Bernard Herrmann 7/17
  • Action Alert: Help Improve & Expand LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance
  • EUC/Keep California Rolling Update: SB 132 Passes!
  • Navigating the Return of Student Loan Collections
  • Final Notes: Alf Clausen, Brian Wilson, Lalo Schifrin
  • Open Mic: Author Seeks Feedback From Colleagues of Victor Feldman
  • Audition Notices: Santa Barbara Symphony, LA Youth Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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June 2025 Overture Online: Tolerance

Inside This Issue:

  • Cover Story: Celebrating Tolerance
  • Join Us at LA PRIDE 2025 with the EUC!
  • AFM Local 47 Special Meeting: Wednesday, June 4 via Zoom
  • Member Spotlight: Sir Elton John
  • Album Review: ‘That’s a Different Groove’ by Marcus Eley
  • 3rd Annual AFM Local 47 Jazz Festival Photo Gallery
  • CALL TO ACTION: Entertainment Union Coalition
  • Options and Strategies for Replacing Your Wildfire Destroyed Home
  • Local 47 Action Alert: Help Improve & Expand LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance
  • Musicians and Animators Join Together to Help ‘Stamp Out Hunger’
  • Production Assistants Rally to Unionize with LiUNA
  • Exclusive Hearing Care Savings
  • Final Note: Roberto Cani
  • Audition Notices: Santa Barbara Symphony, LA Youth Orchestra
  • and more!

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May 2025 Overture Online: Labor Leading the Way for Change

Inside This Issue:

  • Labor Leading the Way for Change 
  • Volunteers Needed to ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ May 10th
  • Member Spotlight: Dale Breidenthal
  • New TV Film/New Media Streaming Residual Begins Payouts! 
  • Election Results for Salary Review Board & Election Board
  • MPTF Performances Delight L.A. Audiences Throughout Jazz Appreciation Month
  • 7th Annual Music Industry Toolbox Presents at AFM Local 47
  • Entertainment Union Coalition ‘Keep California Rolling’ Campaign Update: Both Bills Pass Committee Hearings
  • AFM Represents at the Entertainment Industry Foundation Careers in Entertainment Expo
  • Take Action: Tell Your Representative to Support Federal Arts Funding
  • Audition Notice: LA Opera
  • and more!

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April 2025 Overture Online: 3rd Annual AFM Local 47 Jazz Festival

Inside This Issue:
 
  • AFM Local 47 3rd Annual Jazz Festival
  • Spread the Word: Spring Membership Drive
  • Member Spotlight: Harvey Mason
  • Next General Membership Meeting: Monday, April 28
  • AFM Launches #NotMe App for Safe Reporting of Workplace Misconduct
  • Entertainment Union Coalition ‘Keep California Rolling’ Campaign Update
  • Next Member Mingle: Friday, April 18
  • IRS Announces Tax Relief for CA Taxpayers
  • Oscars 2025
  • Pro-Labor Bill, the PRO Act, Reintroduced in Congress
  • Final Note: Ray Kelley
  • Audition Notices: LA Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera
  • and more!

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March 2025 Overture Online: Moving Forward Together

Inside This Issue:

  • Women’s History Month: Moving Forward Together
     
  • AFM Joins Entertainment Union Coalition to ‘Keep CA Rolling’
     
  • Member Spotlight: Lesa Terry
     
  • APALA Women’s Day Celebration: Saturday, March 15
     
  • Next Member Mingle: Friday, March 21
     
  • Congratulations 2025 Grammy Winners & Nominees!
     
  • Local 47 Brass Quintet Brings Joy of Music to Pasadena Fire Relief Center
     
  • Music Performance Trust Fund Announces 2025 Scholarships
     
  • Organizing Department Report: Reflecting on Solidarity
     
  • Australia’s MEAA Sends Statement in Solidarity With L.A. Musicians Affected by Wildfires
     
  • Musicians Support Striking Mental Health Workers
     
  • Mayor, AFL-CIO President Meet With L.A. Labor Leaders to Distribute Resources to Wildfire Survivors
     
  • Audition Notices: LA Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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February 2025 Overture Online: Helping Each Other

Inside This Issue:

  • Helping Each Other: How our musical community is coming together in the aftermath of the devastating L.A. fires
  • Black History Month 2025: African Americans, and Labor
  • Member Spotlight: Greg Phillinganes
  • AFM Local 47 Establishes New Organizing Department
  • Live Performance / Live Music Prep Wage Scale Updates for 2025
  • Support Blue Canvas Orchestra’s Fight for a Fair Contract
  • Bylaws Update: Two Resolutions Adopted at January General Membership Meeting
  • Next Member Mingle: Friday, February 21
  • NAMM 2025 Recap
  • Access Discounted Legal Services for Union Families With Union Plus
  • Don’t Get Penalized! File for Your L.A. Business Tax & Creative Artist Exemption by Feb. 28
  • Audition Notices: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony
  • & more!

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January 2025 Overture Online: Happy New Year – Let’s Get Organized!

Inside This Issue:

  • General Membership Meeting & Musicians’ Club Annual Meeting: Monday, January 27 – Voting on 2 Resolutions to Amend the Bylaws
  • New Rehearsal Room Rates for 2025
  • Member Spotlight: Bruce Springsteen
  • Don’t Get Penalized! File for Your L.A. Business Tax Exemption by Feb. 28
  • What is Organizing?
  • Why Young People Support Unions So Strongly
  • Do Not Work For Alert: Giorgio Lalov, dba Teatro Lirico D’Europa
  • AFM, NBCUniversal Settle Civil Action; Submit Your Incomplete Track Information
  • Do We Have an Unclaimed Check Waiting for You?
  • Audition Notices: Long Beach Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
  • and more!

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December 2024 Overture Online: Happy Holidays from AFM Local 47!

Inside This Issue:

  • Spread Joy With a Toy! Donate an Unwrapped Toy to Local 47 by December 18
  • October General Membership Meeting Recap/Resolution Adopted
  • Member Spotlight: Germaine Franco
  • AFM 47 Life Member Clint Eastwood Releases 40th Film, ‘Juror #2’
  • Election 2024: Celebrate the Wins, Organize for the Future 
  • Instrument Insurance is Back: Protect your Gear With AFM & HUB
  • Center Theatre Group Celebrates Extended Run of ‘American Idiot’ 
    With Deaf West Theatre at Mark Taper Forum
  • Celebration of Life: George Bohanon
  • Audition Notice: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
  • and more!

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November 2024 Overture Online: Gratitude in Harmony

Inside This Issue:

  • COVER STORY: Gratitude in Harmony: Give Back by Giving Thanks to Our Musical Community
  • GOTV by Nov. 5th! Sign Up for an Event Near You
  • Member Spotlight: Arturo Sandoval to be Awarded at 2024 Kennedy Center Honors
  • AFM Local 47 Honored at Delores Huerta Spirit Awards
  • AFM Goes to American Film Convention 2024
  • LA Phil Principal Concertmaster Martin Chalifour Announces Retirement
  • AFM, NBCUniversal Settle Civil Action; Submit Your Incomplete Track Info
  • AFM, SAG-AFTRA & Others Call Out TikTok’s Greed
  • Celebrations of Life: John T. Perrett, Ben Powell
  • Audition Notice: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
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