Now is the right time to become an American Federation of Musicians member. From ragtime to rap, from the early phonograph to today's digital recordings, the AFM has been there for its members. And now there are more benefits available to AFM members than ever before, including a multi-million dollar pension fund, excellent contract protection, instrument and travelers insurance, work referral programs and access to licensed booking agents to keep you working.
As an AFM member, you are part of a membership of more than 80,000 musicians. Experience has proven that collective activity on behalf of individuals with similar interests is the most effective way to achieve a goal. The AFM can negotiate agreements and administer contracts, procure valuable benefits and achieve legislative goals. A single musician has no such power.
The AFM has a proud history of managing change rather than being victimized by it. We find strength in adversity, and when the going gets tough, we get creative - all on your behalf.
Like the industry, the AFM is also changing and evolving, and its policies and programs will move in new directions dictated by its members. As a member, you will determine these directions through your interest and involvement. Your membership card will be your key to participation in governing your union, keeping it responsive to your needs and enabling it to serve you better. To become a member now, visit www.afm.org/join.
July 11, 2017
Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF) Trustee Dan Beck is a finalist in the 2017 Octicon Focus on People Awards, which honor outstanding people with hearing loss.
July 10, 2017
Actors’ Equity Association members ratified a new five-year contract with the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) in June.
July 10, 2017
Merit Preparatory Charter School in Newark, New Jersey, which has been ordered to close at the end of June due to its low test scores, says it will not pay its teachers the final two months owed.
July 7, 2017
In June, David Israelite, chief executive of the National Music Publishers Association, announced that Yoko Ono will be getting long overdue credit for her contribution to John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
July 7, 2017
But, she explains in a blog, every single negative comment was from a man. “These men like to claim that they aren’t sexist—that sexism, in fact, does not exist, but that women are inherently ‘inferior’ composers,” says Lentjes
July 7, 2017
With 18 days of continuous music, Epidemic Music Group broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Concert by Multiple Artists. More than 450 performers took part in the event that raised more than $90,000 for 16 charities that included Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research. In order to break the record audience size couldn’t drop below 10 people at the Stouffville, Ontario, Earl of Whitchurch pub.
June 30, 2017
Manufacturing jobs in the US continue to disappear at a record rate with automaker layoffs steadily increasing since 2016.
June 30, 2017
Terrance Wise, who had worked at a Burger King for more than 11 years, was not kept on the job when the store was acquired by EYM King in 2015.
June 30, 2017
This enormous collection of more than 40 songs highlights the biggest hits from the start of the new millennium
June 30, 2017
Donn Trenner of Locals 47 (Los Angeles, CA) and 802 (New York City) has been a professional musician since his teens and his musical memoir is a tour through musical “scenes” some of us remember and others would love to visit.