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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!

Browse our full Overture pdf archives here.

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July 2024 Overture Online: Freedom

Inside This Issue:

  • COVER STORY: Freedom
  • Member Spotlight: Steven Allen Fox
  • Changes are Coming to our Website: Update Your Directory Profile Today
  • The Music Inside “Inside Out 2”
  • AFM Local 47 Members Celebrate Union PRIDE
  • Valley Economic Alliance Honors Controller Malia M. Cohen and Treasurer Fiona Ma
  • #WhyUnion? Norman Ludwin Shares His Answer
  • IATSE Secures Tentative Agreements

and more!

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Music Performance Trust Fund – July 2024

Local 47 member Kirk Andrés Wilson and his quartet performing an MPTF-sponsored Juneteenth concert 6/19/2024 at Hollywood Piano in Pasadena.

Are you interested in presenting a FREE and open to the public CONCERT?

For over seven decades, the Music Performance Trust Fund provides grants for free public live music events. Its mission includes contributing to the public knowledge and appreciation of music, as well as making music a part of every child’s life experience. Continue reading →

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Verify Your Directory Contact Information

We’re in the home stretch! As we’ve been reporting over the past several months, AFM Local 47 has been hard at work updating our IT infrastructure, and in the coming weeks we will launch a new, fully cloud-based database named Ensemble 2.0 (aka “E2”) that will feature many substantial upgrades.

All members are encouraged to update your Directory contact info now, and most importantly verify/update your email address, to expedite the new online registration process once E2 is launched. Please review your public profile information by searching your name at afm47.org/directory (note: mailing addresses are never posted publicly). o verify your full information on file, and/or to make any updates to your profile, please email directory@afm47.org. Continue reading →

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The Music Inside ‘Inside Out 2’

“Flight for Fighting” composed by Andrea Datzman / produced by Michael Giacchino
“Inside Out 2” ℗ 2024 Walt Disney Records/Pixar
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group

Going out to the movies is making a comeback, in a big way!

Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” — featuring a lively musical score by AFM Local 47 composer Andrea Datzman — continues to sizzle at the box office, where it earned a record $30 million on the Juneteenth holiday. To date the animated feature has amassed nearly $500 million in ticket sales worldwide. Continue reading →

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Musicians Celebrate Union PRIDE

Our local labor community enjoyed a fun-filled day of solidarity at the 2024 Los Angeles Pride Parade in WeHo on Sunday, June 2. AFM Local 47 Organizer Rahul Neuman and members David Horne, Nick Cazares, and Amy Hershberger joined in the festivities alongside friends from the LA County Federation of Labor and members from many other unions throughout the region.

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Valley Economic Alliance Honors Controller Malia M. Cohen and Treasurer Fiona Ma

The Valley Economic Alliance hosted a celebratory gathering on the evening of June 10 honoring California State Controller Malia M. Cohen (pictured above, far left) and State Treasurer Fiona Ma (above right, in center) in recognition of their impact on the State of California and the San Fernando Valley region.

AFM Local 47 President Stephanie O’Keefe and Communications Director Linda Rapka (both pictured with Ma, above) were among the attendees along with esteemed guests from the Los Angeles Police Department Operations Valley Bureau, the Los Angeles Fire Department Operations Valley Bureau, and the United States Army Color Guard.

Previous: Musicians Celebrate Union PRIDE | Next: #WhyUnion? Norman Ludwin shares his answer

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#WhyUnion? Norman Ludwin

“Being part of a union is a special privilege and lets you feel part of something greater than yourself.”

– Norman Ludwin, Bassist
Member since 1975

Read more member testimonials, and share your own answer, at WhyUnion.org.

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