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!

Browse our full Overture pdf archives here.

For special members-only Overture content — Executive Board minutes, CBAs, Local 47 Wage Scales, Bylaws, Suspended/Expelled member lists, and more — log in to your new E2 member account at ensemble.afm47.org and browse the “Overture” section on the Documents page. (New to E2? Visit our E2 FAQ here.)

2025 Local 47 Live Performance/Music Prep Wage Scale updates

The AFM Local 47 Live Performance/Music Prep for Live Performance Wage Scales have been updated for 2025. 

A digital copy of the book is posted in the members-only section of our website at ensemble.afm47.org. (If you have not yet logged in to our new system, please review the instructions here.)

Print booklets are also available by request (1 per member). Please email live@afm47.org.

NAMM 2025

MPTF Trustee Dan Beck, AFM Local 7 Secretary/Treasurer Tammy Noreyko, AFM Local 47 Sound Recording Business Representative Jamie Vespa, AFM Local 47 Communications Director Linda Rapka, AFM International Musician Advertising Director Honore Stockley, AFM Director of Communications Antoinette Follet, AFM Director of Freelance Services Wages Argott, and AFM Local 7 President Edmund Velasco.

MPTF Trustee Dan Beck, AFM Local 7 Secretary/Treasurer Tammy Noreyko, AFM Local 47 Sound Recording Business Representative Jamie Vespa, AFM Local 47 Communications Director Linda Rapka, AFM International Musician Advertising Director Honore Stockley, AFM Director of Communications Antoinette Follet, AFM Director of Freelance Services Wages Argott, and AFM Local 7 President Edmund Velasco.

The American Federation of Musicians and Music Performance Trust Fund were thrilled to exhibit at this year’s National Association of Music Merchants show for the second year in a row. Continue reading →

Los Angeles Wildfire Relief Resources

 

Meetings & Events

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Join AFM & MPTF at NAMM 2025!

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada and the Music Performance Trust Fund are excited to once again be co-hosting a booth at this year’s National Association of Music Merchants Show, the industry’s largest stage uniting the global music, sound and entertainment technology communities. The event takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Find us at Booth 7806 during the event’s three exhibit days, January 23-25 (view map).

Snag your 2025 NAMM badge here.

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!

Browse our full Overture pdf archives here.

For special members-only Overture content — Executive Board minutes, CBAs, Local 47 Wage Scales, Bylaws, Suspended/Expelled member lists, and more — log in to your new E2 member account at ensemble.afm47.org and browse the “Overture” section on the Documents page. (New to E2? Visit our E2 FAQ here.)

New Rehearsal Room Rates for 2025

As of January 1, 2025, rehearsal room rental fees will be increased by $5. There is still no charge for backline (PA, microphones, amps, etc.). Life Members will continue to receive a $5 discount.

We understand the importance of our rehearsal spaces to members and are happy to continue to provide these spaces for a fraction of what is charged elsewhere.

To view the new rates and to book a room, log in to your member account by clicking the Booking button at afm47.org/rehearsals.

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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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Browse our full Overture pdf archives here.

For special members-only Overture content — Executive Board minutes, CBAs, Local 47 Wage Scales, Bylaws, Suspended/Expelled member lists, and more — log in to your new E2 member account at ensemble.afm47.org and browse the “Overture” section on the Documents page. (New to E2? Visit our E2 FAQ here.)

AFM Local 47 Bylaws update

At our General Membership Meeting on October 28, 2024, a Resolution to amend the Bylaws was presented concerning the scheduling of quarterly General Membership Meetings (Article VIII, Section 1).

Due to the lack of quorum, a Special Executive Board meeting was held so that the Board could act upon the Resolution, which was recommended for a YES vote by the Legislative Committee. Several members asked questions and offered various opinions, suggestions and recommendations. Of the seven Board members present, all unanimously voted in favor to pass the Resolution.

Local 47 members may read the Resolution by logging in to your online account at ensemble.afm47.org, selecting DOCUMENTS, and clicking the link under the “Resolution to Amend the Bylaws” ribbon. (If you have not yet logged in to our new system, please view the instructions here.) The revised set of Bylaws may also be accessed under the “Other Members-Only Documents” ribbon.

‘Tis the Season: Spread Joy With a Toy!

Donate an unwrapped toy to Local 47 by December 18, 2024

The holidays are approaching rapidly and thousands of families will have to decide whether to buy food, pay rent, or keep the heat on in their homes during the winter nights. Without our help, many of our union sisters, brothers and siblings will be unable to afford holiday presents for their children. Continue reading →