Let’s Welcome The President and the Board Members for the Year 2021
President Sohrab Saadat Ladjvardi (musician, composer, leader of the music collective SoSaLa, educator, editor; and music activist.) Board of Directors Billy Harper (Jazz musician, band leader and educator) David Belmont (multi instrumentalist, producer, label owner and political activist) Mario Guarneri (jazz and classical musician and President of the non-profit JAZZ IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD organization) Keith Levenson (composer and music director…
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MFM’s 1st Fundraiser Campaign starts Oct. 20th Seeking Your “Priceless” Contribution!
MFM FUNDRAISER SEEKS YOUR PRICELESS CONTRIBUTIONS! Musicians For Musicians (MFM) is a non-profit Musicians Rights organization established in 2015 by professional musician Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi. MFM seeks to elevate the work of all musicians to the level of a true profession, one recognized and appropriately rewarded by society; it’s a 501(c)(6) non-tax-deductible association with the…
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Report: MFM & MPA Joint ZOOM Webinar w. Adam Reifsteck (Teknofonic Recordings) and Jeffrey James (Jeffrey James Consulting)
MFM ‘s 2nd ZOOM Webinar: “Effective Ways to Market and Promote Your Music in 2020.” Report by Dawoud Kringle On Thursday, September 17, 2020, MFM, in cooperation with the Manhattan Producers Alliance (MPA), presented its 2nd Zoom Webinar: Effective Ways to Market and Promote Your Music in 2020. The webinar was co-hosted by MFM member and…
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MFM Got A Nu T-Shirt On Sale! A Skull?!
GREAT NEWS!!!! MFM Got a New T-shirt for Sale.” A Skull…?! WUNDERBAR! This t-shirt is not just a merch, but also a passive communication tool to reach out to the public and advocate MFM’s mission. It is very provocative and will make people look at the wearer. Reg. the skull: it represents all musicians no…
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Ken Hatfield: So let us all come together in solidarity and STOP giving away our work
I hope you all are hanging in there during these trying times. Despite all the hardships the music community is currently enduring, I’d like us to consider that there may be a silver lining. This pandemic and the subsequent loss of gigs has stripped away the illusion that giving away the content we create in…
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No PUA Payments Anymore…What’s Going to Happen With Us Working Musicians?
“85% of people are more scared of financial ruin than dying of Corona.” – Keith Levenson Text by Dawoud Kringle On July 31st, 2020, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) or the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) $600 weekly payments to individuals who are unable to work because of a COVID-19-related reason but are not eligible…
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Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Extension: Call Your Senators!!!
Click here to tell the Senate to support critical pieces of the HEROES Act in the next COVID 19 relief bill including: Extending Pandemic Unemployment Compensation which provides an additional $600 per week that unemployed workers have been receiving since the CARES Act passed in March. Preserving healthcare benefits by passing a 100% COBRA premium…
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MFM PODCAST EPISODE 9: Mark Deutsch discusses the artistic and professional processes and aspects of his pursuit of a unique musical vision
In this episode of the MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle interviews California based musician, improviser, composer, and inventor of the Bazantar Mark Deutsch about his personal evolution from contrabass and sitar virtuoso to designing an unprecedented musical instrument, his artistic and spiritual philosophies on music, and the struggles of being an innovator and iconoclast. Mark started as a…
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MFM Endorses Musicians Public Event “For Our Courageous Workers a City-Wide Symphonic Fanfare”
MFM endorses this public musicians event on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7pm. For Our Courageous Workers a City-Wide Symphonic Fanfare was conceived by Frank London, Hajnal Pivnick and Dorian Wallace. Composers Frank London (of The Klezmatics), and Hajnal Pivnick and Dorian Wallace (of Tenth Intervention) have joined forces on this effort to bring the city…
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Call To Action: Sign the MWA Petition Endorsed by MFM
MUSICAL ARTISTS CALL FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN At market closing on April 10th, while tens of thousands of musicians and DJs across the country tried to access unemployment benefits, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Larry Page of Google/Youtube had earned $6.2 billion and $3.6 billion, respectively, for the week, according to Forbes.…
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