Congratulations to all the AFM Local 47 musicians who worked on these 76th annual Creative Arts Emmy nominated & winning shows in multiple music categories! #unionstrong
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Congratulations 74th annual Emmy winners!
Congratulations to all the #AFM47 musicians who worked on this year’s Emmy winners for Outstanding Music Direction: “Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show,” and Outstanding Original Music & Lyrics: “Schmigadoon!”
2021 Emmy Awards
Congratulations to all of our AFM Local 47 members who worked on the music for the following 2021 Emmy®-nominated projects! Continue reading
Congratulations 72nd annual Emmy winners & nominees!
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the 72nd Emmy Awards! This list celebrates all of this year’s Emmy-winning and nominated projects scored union with AFM 47 musicians here in Los Angeles: Continue reading
Congratulations 2019 Emmy Nominees!
Congratulations to all of the fantastic AFM Local 47 members who worked on this year’s Emmy®-nominated television shows!
The 71st Annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony will be held over two nights on September 14 & 15, 2019.
Best of luck to all!
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
Jeff Beal
House Of Cards – “Chapter 73”
Netflix
Siddhartha Khosla
This Is Us – “Songbird Road: Part One”
NBC
Adam Taylor
The Handmaid’s Tale – “The Word”
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Tony & Me
The unlikely and continuing musical journey of a lifetime … so far
Guest Column by Gregg Field, 2018 Emmy Winner: Outstanding Music Direction, “Tony Bennett: The Library of Congress – Gershwin Prize for Popular Song”
I had no idea how or why as a teenager I fell in love with Tony Bennett’s music. It happened sometime in the early seventies. I was a young kid playing drums in my high school jazz band in the San Francisco east bay area with all the dreams of making it as a pro someday.Tony Bennett would regularly appear two or three times a year at the Fairmont hotel Venetian Room in San Francisco. Whenever he was in town, I would drag my girlfriend, who would have much preferred to be at the Fillmore to Tony’s buttoned down, coat and tie concert. Continue reading
John Legend Emmy win makes him an EGOT
And then there were 15… Superstar AFM Local 47 member John Legend joins the exclusive EGOT club with his two Emmy Arts wins as lead actor and co-producer for “Jesus Christ Superstar Live.” He is one of the youngest people ever to win all four Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
September 2018 Overture Online: Congratulations 70th Emmy Nominees!
Overture Online
September 2018
Congratulations 70th Emmy Nominees!
Celebrating the musicians of television in Los Angeles
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Congratulations 70th Emmy® Nominees!
Kudos to all of the fantastic AFM Local 47 musicians who brought this year’s Emmy®-nominated music to life!
Tune in to the 70th annual Emmy Awards broadcast on Sept. 17, 2018, on NBC.
View the full list of nominated shows scored union in Los Angeles below, and check out a sampling of the music with our 2018 Emmys Playlist on YouTube:
“Leaving Storybrooke” – ‘Once Upon a Time’ Episode receives Emmy nom for Outstanding Music Composition
Los Angeles musicians have done it again! Composers Mark Isham, Cindy O’Connor and Michael D. Simon received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series – Original Dramatic Score for their work on ABC’s Once Upon a Time episode “Leaving Storybrooke.” Continue reading