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H&W: Premium Assistance Under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

H&W If you or your children are eligible for Medicaid or CHIP and even if you are eligible for health coverage from your employer – in our case, the Professional Musicians, Local 47, and Employers’ Health & Welfare Fund (the “Fund”) – your state may have a premium assistance program that can help pay for your children’s coverage, using funds from the that State’s Medicaid or CHIP programs. If you or your children aren’t eligible for Medicaid or CHIP, you won’t be eligible for these premium assistance programs but, nonetheless, you may be able to buy them (and yourself, if you have not qualified for coverage through the Fund) individual insurance coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. For more information, visit www.healthcare.gov. Continue reading →

April 2016 Overture Online: John Clayton

Overture Online
April 2016

Cover Story: John Clayton
Playing it Cool

Building Sale Update
Building Committee members appointed

Jazz Appreciation Month
Featured artist 2016: ‘King’ Benny Carter

Avoid Being Suspended Over Delinquent Work Dues!
Review the Board policy

Spring Membership Drive
Spread the word! Runs April 1 through June 30

and more!

The Overture Online app is available FREE in the Apple App Store & Google Play:

Overture Online is optimized for reading via smartphone or tablet. For those without access to a smart device, this issue may be viewed on a web browser (must have flash enabled). Local 47 members may download archived pdf versions from the members section at afm47.org.

Spring 2016 Overture Magazine

Local 47 members will have now received the latest edition of the Overture Magazine in the mail. These print issues contain additional news not found in the public Overture Online, such as Resolutions to amend the bylaws, member status updates, and other announcements requiring due notice per the Bylaws. If you are a member in good standing and didn’t receive your print copy, email us or view it online by logging in to your member account at afm47.org.

Orchestration With Dr. Norman Ludwin

Courses offered paired or individually

FREE to Local 47 members

Space is limited; RSVP required: rsvp@promusic47.org Continue reading →

April 2016 In Memoriam

William H. Earl
Life Member. Guitar
8/26/1923 – 2/12/2016
Survived by spouse & children

Jimmy Haskell
aka Sheridan Pearlman
Life Member. Composer
11/7/1926 – 2/4/2016
Survived by children

Stephens LaFever
Life Member. Bass
3/27/1932 – 12/9/2015
Survived by spouse & children

Robert R. Malsack
Life Member. Piano
6/1/1929 – 1/23/2016
Survived by grandson & family

Brian D. O’Connor
Horn
12/6/1951 – 3/4/2016
Survived by friend

Spread the Word! Local 47 Spring Membership Drive 2016

April 6: ASMAC ‘First Wednesdays’ feat. Patrick Williams, Elliot Deutsch

Wednesday, April 6
@ AFM Local 47, 817 Vine St. Hollywood

Patrick Williams

Patrick Williams, composer of original scores for over 65 films including BREAKING AWAY (for which he received an Oscar nomination), SWING SHIFT, CRY-BABY and THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, as well as TV series’ such as COLUMBO, LOU GRANT, THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and THE BOB NEWHART SHOW, will demonstrate the process of conceiving an original music arrangement, Wednesday, April 6 at the Musicians Union in Hollywood as part of a continuing monthly series sponsored by ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers) called “First Wednesdays.” Continue reading →

Amazon’s ‘Transparent’ Blasted for Unequal Treatment of Musicians

** UPDATE 4/11/2016 — We are pleased to report that an agreement has been reached with the producers of Amazon original series “Transparent” to cover musicians working on the show under a union contract. Read more **

Labor organizations demand action asking ‘Where’s the pride for musicians?’

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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 29, 2016) — Amazon series “Transparent” has come under fire by leaders in the Los Angeles labor community for the unequal treatment of musicians who work on the show.

On Tuesday morning members of AFM Local 47, the Los Angeles chapter of the American Federation of Musicians, leafleted outside a desert location shoot in Pearblossom, California, asking “Where’s the pride for musicians?” and calling upon production company Picrow to hold musicians to the same standard as all its other workers. The acting talent, writers, directors, and crew receive union wages, benefits and protections; only musicians are shut out of a labor contract. Continue reading →