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The official e-publication of AFM Local 47

November 2025 Overture E-Magazine: Use Your Vote! 🗳️

Inside This Issue:
  • Cover Story – Use Your Vote!
    • CA Statewide Special Election for Prop 50 – November 4
    • AFM Local 47 Triennial General Election – December 9
  • Local 47 2025 General Election
    • How to Cast Your Ballot
    • Prohibited Campaigning Reminders
  • Results of Voting at October 27 General Membership Meeting
  • Member Spotlight: Euro Zambrano
  • AFM Announces Sound Recording Labor Agreement Office Hours
  • Healing Through Music: Nathaniel Blume releases a heartfelt tribute to his father’s memory with ‘nootbar’ EP 
  • Recording Industry’s Music Performance Trust Fund Appoints Industry Veteran Greg Linn as New Trustee 
  • Demand an End to the Government Shutdown
  • EUC Update: Feature Film Announcement
  • Entertainment Union Coalition Members Honored at AD51 Community Excellence Awards
  • Graduate Degrees for Union Families
  • Final Notes: Secretary/Treasurer Emeritus Serena Kay Williams, Ian Freebairn-Smith, Stephen Croes
  • Audition Notice: Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera
  • and more!

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For exclusive 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.)

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October 2025 Overture Online: SOLIDARITY WINS – Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Late Night

Inside This Issue:

  • Cover Story – SOLIDARITY WINS: Jimmy Kimmel Returns to Late Night
  • Voting at Next General Membership Meeting October 27: Special Election for Salary Review Board, Resolutions to Amend the Bylaws
  • Member Spotlight: Cleto Escobedo III
  • AFM Local 47 2025 General Election Updates: List of Nominees, Vote By Mail Absentee Ballot Request Form
  • LA Philharmonic Musicians Announce New Four-Year Agreement
  • Call to Action for Traveling Musicians Regarding P2 Visa Delays
  • Action Alerts: ‘We the People Are Rising’ March & Rally 10/4; Yes on Prop 50 Canvassing/Phone Banking; Food Bank Volunteers Needed
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen Returns to LA Phil as Creative Director
  • ‘Labor in the Pulpit’ Celebrates Historical Bridge Between Labor and Faith
  • Entertainment Industry Flex Plan / Local 47 H&W Plan Health Care Update
  • Final Notes: James A. Hampton, Joe Soldo
  • Audition Notices: LA Opera, Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera
  • and more!

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September 2025 Overture Online

September 2025 Overture Online: The Power of Song in the Labor Movement

Inside This Issue:
  • Cover Story – SOLIDARITY FOREVER: The Power of Song in the Labor Movement
  • AFM Local 47 2025 General Election: Nominating Petitions Due Sept. 15
  • Member Spotlight: Andy García
  • An Update on High-Budget SVOD/’Streaming’ Residuals
  • 2024 Audit Report Now Available
  • Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month: Latinos in Music
  • Action Alert: Dodgers Tour Guides Deserve Fair Wages & Benefits
  • EUC Thanks Legislators for Keeping California Rolling
  • Voices of Libertad: A Campaign for Immigrant Justice Through Art 
  • Travel More, Spend Less: Union Member Travel Perks — Exclusive Hotel Savings
  • Final Note: Joe Soldo
  • Audition Notice: Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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August 2025 Overture Online

August 2025 Overture Online: Strategies to Future-Proof a Music Career in the AI Era

Inside This Issue:
  • Cover Story: Strategies to Future-Proof a Music Career in the AI Era
  • AFM Local 47 2025 General Election: Nominating Petitions Now Available
  • Member Spotlight: Susanna Hoffs
  • Congrats Local 47 2025 Emmy Award Nominees!
  • Results of Voting at July General Membership Meeting
  • Musicians Rally in Support of Stephen Colbert
  • 2026 GRAMMY Awards Online Entry Period Now Open
  • Action Alert: Donate to Defend the NEA and Support the Arts 
  • LA Fed Hosts Largest-Ever Non-Violent Direct Action Training
  • CA Labor President Lorena Gonzalez Appointed to Lead Efforts on AI, Automation, Worker Privacy 
  • Union Membership = Affordable College Degrees
  • Audition Notices: LA Youth Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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July 2025 Overture Online

July 2025 Overture Online: Summer in the City

Inside This Issue:

  • Summer in the City: Music & Concerts + Calls to Action
  • Next General Membership Meeting 7/28: Special Election & Resolutions
  • AFM Local 47 2025 Triennial General Election Announcement
  • Member Spotlight: Weird Al
  • Money After the Credits: How FMSMF Helps Get Film Musicians Paid – Again
  • Chris Hillman’s ‘Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond’
  • Score Study Master Class: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho” – The Orchestrations of Bernard Herrmann 7/17
  • Action Alert: Help Improve & Expand LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance
  • EUC/Keep California Rolling Update: SB 132 Passes!
  • Navigating the Return of Student Loan Collections
  • Final Notes: Alf Clausen, Brian Wilson, Lalo Schifrin
  • Open Mic: Author Seeks Feedback From Colleagues of Victor Feldman
  • Audition Notices: Santa Barbara Symphony, LA Youth Orchestra, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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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.)

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June 2025 Overture Online: Tolerance

Inside This Issue:

  • Cover Story: Celebrating Tolerance
  • Join Us at LA PRIDE 2025 with the EUC!
  • AFM Local 47 Special Meeting: Wednesday, June 4 via Zoom
  • Member Spotlight: Sir Elton John
  • Album Review: ‘That’s a Different Groove’ by Marcus Eley
  • 3rd Annual AFM Local 47 Jazz Festival Photo Gallery
  • CALL TO ACTION: Entertainment Union Coalition
  • Options and Strategies for Replacing Your Wildfire Destroyed Home
  • Local 47 Action Alert: Help Improve & Expand LA’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance
  • Musicians and Animators Join Together to Help ‘Stamp Out Hunger’
  • Production Assistants Rally to Unionize with LiUNA
  • Exclusive Hearing Care Savings
  • Final Note: Roberto Cani
  • Audition Notices: Santa Barbara Symphony, LA Youth Orchestra
  • and more!

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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.)

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May 2025 Overture Online: Labor Leading the Way for Change

Inside This Issue:

  • Labor Leading the Way for Change 
  • Volunteers Needed to ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ May 10th
  • Member Spotlight: Dale Breidenthal
  • New TV Film/New Media Streaming Residual Begins Payouts! 
  • Election Results for Salary Review Board & Election Board
  • MPTF Performances Delight L.A. Audiences Throughout Jazz Appreciation Month
  • 7th Annual Music Industry Toolbox Presents at AFM Local 47
  • Entertainment Union Coalition ‘Keep California Rolling’ Campaign Update: Both Bills Pass Committee Hearings
  • AFM Represents at the Entertainment Industry Foundation Careers in Entertainment Expo
  • Take Action: Tell Your Representative to Support Federal Arts Funding
  • Audition Notice: LA Opera
  • and more!

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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.)

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April 2025 Overture Online: 3rd Annual AFM Local 47 Jazz Festival

Inside This Issue:
 
  • AFM Local 47 3rd Annual Jazz Festival
  • Spread the Word: Spring Membership Drive
  • Member Spotlight: Harvey Mason
  • Next General Membership Meeting: Monday, April 28
  • AFM Launches #NotMe App for Safe Reporting of Workplace Misconduct
  • Entertainment Union Coalition ‘Keep California Rolling’ Campaign Update
  • Next Member Mingle: Friday, April 18
  • IRS Announces Tax Relief for CA Taxpayers
  • Oscars 2025
  • Pro-Labor Bill, the PRO Act, Reintroduced in Congress
  • Final Note: Ray Kelley
  • Audition Notices: LA Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera
  • and more!

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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.)

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March 2025 Overture Online: Moving Forward Together

Inside This Issue:

  • Women’s History Month: Moving Forward Together
     
  • AFM Joins Entertainment Union Coalition to ‘Keep CA Rolling’
     
  • Member Spotlight: Lesa Terry
     
  • APALA Women’s Day Celebration: Saturday, March 15
     
  • Next Member Mingle: Friday, March 21
     
  • Congratulations 2025 Grammy Winners & Nominees!
     
  • Local 47 Brass Quintet Brings Joy of Music to Pasadena Fire Relief Center
     
  • Music Performance Trust Fund Announces 2025 Scholarships
     
  • Organizing Department Report: Reflecting on Solidarity
     
  • Australia’s MEAA Sends Statement in Solidarity With L.A. Musicians Affected by Wildfires
     
  • Musicians Support Striking Mental Health Workers
     
  • Mayor, AFL-CIO President Meet With L.A. Labor Leaders to Distribute Resources to Wildfire Survivors
     
  • Audition Notices: LA Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Modesto Symphony Orchestra
  • and more!

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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.)

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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!

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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.)

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