Category: Newsletter

Miami Music Project’s Teaching Artists Training Institute (TATI) has received a $1.3 million grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation. TATI is in its fourth year providing virtual training, in-person workshops, and intensive learning retreats to further education opportunities for its teaching artists. To date, 350 music educators have been engaged by TATI. Broadway READ MORE

New, Reinstated, and Resigned members for June 2024: New Members: none Reinstated Members: Resigned Members: none Deceased Members: none

Just a reminder that wage scales increased on June 1. For the current rates, please visit http://www.afm655.org/members/wagescale.php

MPTF has just announced that Local 655 has a grant allocation of over $12,000 for the current year. If you have ideas for concerts that are free and open to the public, please let us know! Since the grants have been underutilized in the past few years, President Hawley and Secretary-Treasurer Apana met with Phillip READ MORE

A band that shall remain nameless performed under the protection of AFM Phono-Record Labor Agreements. As a result, they were paid full scales, received Pension Fund credits, and participated in the revenue-sharing program so-well-known as the “Phono Special Payment Fund” (in 2023, over $11 million was distributed from this fund). They even received “New Use” READ MORE

Musicians sidelining and recording for the Apple TV+ show Severance are now working under an AFM contract through the New York Local 802. The new agreement will secure fair wages and protections for the musicians. Disneyland character cast members will now be represented by Actors Equity. The actors overwhelmingly voted in favor of union representation READ MORE