AFM Local 47 is proud to host a booth at this year’s Film in California Conference on May 20, 2017 at CBS Studio Center on Radford Avenue. Continue reading
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Studio/Video 47 Media Archive Must Go!
Music Prep Chart Update
The Local 47 Music Prep Chart has been updated. Members may access it in the members section at afm47.org (login required).
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Final Note: Derrick A. Lefebvre
Copyist
8/24/1974 – 4/17/2017
Derrick Adam Lefebvre, of Los Angeles, California, passed away April 17, 2017, at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center in L.A. He was born Aug. 24, 1974 in Kokomo, Indiana, the son of Larry and Sandy (Summers) Lefebvre. Derrick was a 1992 graduate of Kokomo High School where he was president of his senior class, a member of the high school marching band, concert band, and jazz band, and German club. He was also a member of the Kokomo swim team. Derrick graduated from Butler University in Indianapolis in 1996. He was a member of the Butler Symphony, Butler Wind Ensemble, and his favorite, the JCFA Composers Orchestra. He was also a member of the Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity, Alpha Beta Chapter. In Los Angeles, Derrick worked as a composer and proofreader at JoAnn Kane Music Service. Continue reading
Do Not Work For list updates
AFM members: The following have been added to the AFM Local 47 Do Not Work For list:
Collective Media Guild
Failure to pay area standards and discrimination against musicians due to union status
Instrumental Casting
Failure to pay area standards and discrimination against musicians due to union status
Please review the full list here.
California can guarantee healthcare in the face of healthcare attacks!
Last week the GOP voted to take our healthcare into the dark ages. But here in California, we won’t accept the federal attempts to destroy our healthcare! We will #resist and #persist and show the nation we can guarantee healthcare for all and save billions with SB 562 (Lara & Atkins)!
Remember, in California Democrats having a supermajority and the power to fix healthcare in the Golden State – now it’s up to us to make sure our legislators are with us!
If you’re ready to make sure California leads the nation in winning healthcare for all, here are 3 ways you can help build the movement to win: Continue reading
In Memoriam: May 2017
Leonard (Leon) A. Beck
Life Member. Piano
5/11/1929 – 12/4/2016
Survived by spouse
George A. Brooks
Life Member. Trumpet
1/8/1928 – 2/23/2017
Survived by children
David H. Diller
Life Member. Vocalist
4/20/1926 – 3/17/2017
Survived by children
Joseph (Joe) P. McGuire
Copyist
5/20/1951 – 1/12/2017
Survived by spouse
John M. Setar
Life Member. Alto/Tenor Saxophone
11/16/1924 – 3/15/2017
Survived by spouse
Anthony (Tony) Terran
Life Member. Trumpet
5/30/1926 – 3/20/2017
Survived by children
Final Note: John Setar
Publicity photograph for John Setar (c. 1980).
Life Member. Alto/Tenor Saxophone
11/16/1924 – 3/15/2017
by Jay and Katherine Setar
Most musicians knew John Setar to be fine studio, stage, and casual musician (flute, clarinet, and sax), contractor, leader, and union member/committee member. Dad might have cited his television work with Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, the Steve Allen Westinghouse Show, and his work on the “Gravy Waltz” recording (which won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition) as the highlights of his extensive career. However, we prefer to focus on our father as the kind, generous, self-made man who enriched the lives of those around him. Continue reading
Thousands turn out for May Day March Los Angeles 2017
AFM Local 47 musicians, WGA-West writers, and Healthy California coalition members marched with tens of thousands of Angelenos on May Day 2017 on a three-mile course from MacArthur Park to City Hall.
View our May Day photo gallery on Flickr
Musicians marched on Monday in record numbers. Our community of politically-engaged musicians has grown larger than ever before, with nearly 50 musicians making the long march in the hot sun yesterday.
Tony Jones, Jeff Fish and Bryan Head led the drumline at the May Day March Los Angeles 2017. View our May Day YouTube playlist. Continue reading
