Musicians For Musicians

MFM Public Musicians Forum #15
2019-06-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
MFM Public Musicians Forum #15….Run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of subjects of interest to our members and non members. ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, such as music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, etc. according our slogan #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Date: Monday, June 24, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036)Contact: 212-586-2330
Note: please sign in at the front desk. You must bring a government issued picture ID to be admitted into the building. Use code 1448# to unlock the door to the event space. And please come on time!
Agenda

Most of the meeting will be a conversation between Sohrab and Mario Guarneri from San Francisco. Mario will report about the SF jazz music scene, his pro musician organization JAZZ IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, about his achievements as the President of JITN since 2017 (when he ran a MFM Talk Event here in NY) and how MFM and JITN can improve their collaboration.

About Mario Guarneri

…On Thursday May 25th, 2017, the third MFM Talk…featured.trumpet master, composer, improviser, music educator, music activist, and founder of Jazz in the Neighborhood (JITN; a San Francisco based nonprofit organization helping jazz innovators and developing musicians to create improvised music and build community around live performances, and includes music education as an important part of its mission), and inventor of the BERP (a device that helps trumpet players develop proper breath support by blowing into resistance, letting one buzz one’s mouthpiece while holding the instrument in the regular playing position): Mario Guarneri…… Read more here: https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/2017/06/14/review-mfm-presents-make-music-your-business-nr-3-mfm-talk-series-w-mario-guarneri/

Charlap Ensemble w. Roger Blanc
2019-07-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Local 802, 322 West 48th Street, New York, 10036, United States
“Be sure to mark your calendars for this one! I’ll be leading an all-star twelve-piece Charlap Ensemble concert honoring the one year anniversary of the passing of our dear friend and colleague Jim White.
The concert is free (donations to the Local 802 Emergency Relief Fund strongly encouraged) and takes place on Thursday, July 18 at 5:00 in the Local 802 Club Room at 322 West 48th Street (8th and 9th Aves.); see you all there!” – Roger Blanc (MFM member)

MFM Public Musicians Forum #14
2019-07-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-08-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-09-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-12-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 and 8 more dates | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of subjects of interest to our members and non members. Not only ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, but also music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, etc. according to #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036)
Contact: 212-586-2330
Note: please sign in at the front desk. You must bring a government issued picture ID to be admitted into the building. Use code 1448# to unlock the door to the event space. And please come on time!
Agenda
a. Speakers: Sohrab Saadat ladjevardi (President), David Belmont (Vice President) and Rick Ulfik (MFM member).
MFM Fundraiser Event (w. music and speeches) Announcement in partnership with MFM member Rick Ulfik and his non-profit organization We, The World
b. Speaker: Roger Blanc (BoD)
He will briefly discuss how MFM presents a novel platform for artists from historically separate musical traditions to join forces in pooling information, resources and political clout during an era which presents daunting challenges to all forms of professional musical activity.
c. Speaker: Adam Reifsteck (MFM member)
While streaming services are now in the forefront and musicians are forced to chase fractions of pennies from their recorded music, there is tremendous opportunity when you ignore the music industry trends and apply 21st-century digital marketing strategies that successful businesses in other industries use to your music. Adam teaches electronic musicians how to adopt a musicprenuer mindset and shares what it really takes to succeed in the new music industry.
d. Speaker: Sohrab
Sohrab will report about MFM’s endorsement and support of the Hudson Valley Summit (August 9, 2019 in Kingston NY).
A full-day conference for ambitious, talented and innovative music industry professionals from the Northeast and beyond. Musicians, managers, agents, promoters, record labels, producers, publicists, and the media will share insights, strategies, and rich experiences on how to best create music and bring it to fans.
Recommended especially to our Kingston members! $100 for a day pass (46% discount).
Directions
Closest Train: A,C,E Trains to 42 St. (at 8 Av)
1,2,3 Trains to 42 St. Times Sq. (at Broadway, 7 Av)
N,Q,R,W, 7, S Shuttle Trains to 42 St. Times Sq. (at Broadway, 7 Av)
Closest Bus Stop: Take M11 Southbound (Downtown) on 9 Av
From Times Square: Take M42 Westbound, 1-2 long blocks to 9 Av Walk uptown on 9 Av about 2 1/2 blocks

MFM Public Musicians Forum #16
2019-07-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of subjects of interest to our members and non members.
Not only ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, but also music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, etc. according to #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036), Contact: 212-586-2330

MFM Public Musicians Forum #17
2019-08-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
MFM Public Musicians Forum #17 as always run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of subjects of interest to our members and non members.
Not only ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, but also music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, etc. according to #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036)
Contact: 212-586-2330

MFM Board Meeting
2019-09-16 18:00 - 19:30, 2020-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States

Dawoud Kringle's Music Meditation Session
2019-09-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Quest Bookshop, 240 E 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10222, United States
Dawoud Kringle‘s Music Meditation Sessions are a unique experience. It is a guided meditation that replaces suggested imagery with psychoactive musical form. Many people have had profound experiences with this.
Inspired by the vast musical traditions from around the world; east and west, acoustic and electronic, modern and ancient. Dawoud uses these varied genres to provide a creative and sacred inspiration, and illuminate a new musical path.
In addition to being an accomplished guitarist and bassist, it is his work on the sitar and dilruba that have earned his reputation as “The Jimi Hendrix of the sitar.” His experiments with applying jazz technique and electronics to the traditional music and techniques are unprecedented, and seeks to extend the boundaries of the instruments.

MFM Presents: “Make Music Your Business” #9 Workshop with Ken Hatfield
2019-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Ken Hatfield Speaking About Copyright – legally protecting your creations. Understanding, securing and defending the most fundamental of all artists’ rights.
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2019
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Wingspan Arts (Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, between 44 & 45 St., Suite 602, NY, NY 10036)
Ticket: $15 (free for MFM members). Buy here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfm-pres-make-music-your-business-9-workshop-w-ken-hatfield-tickets-72302539843/ No refunds.
Seating: limited (up to 25 seats)
“What finally turned me into an activist for artists’ rights was the realization that no musician can afford to sit on the sidelines expecting others to fight for rights we ourselves are unwilling to defend.” Ken Hatfield
MFM Advisory Committee member Ken Hatfield will discuss what copyright is, its origins, its importance and why giant tech corporations are funding Astroturf campaigns to undermine it. He will also cover what individual artists need to do to secure and protect the ownership rights of their music under the recently passed Music Modernization Act (MMA).
About Ken Hatfield: the musician, author and activist
A leading proponent of jazz played on the classical guitar, composer KEN HATFIELD received ASCAP‘s prestigious Vanguard Award in 2006 for “innovative and distinctive music that is charting new directions in jazz.”
Ken’s the leader on 10 commercially released CDs, 9 featuring him performing his original compositions, as a soloist or with his ensembles. He’s published six books of his compositions. In 2005 Mel Bay published his comprehensive instructional book Jazz and the Classical Guitar: Theory and Application and in 2017 included two of his compositions in Contemporary Guitar Composers of the Americas.
Ken’s compositional experience ranges from jazz works for his own ensembles, to solo classical guitar works, choral works, and ballet scores for Judith Jamison, The Washington Ballet Company, and the Maurice Béjart Ballet Company, as well as scores for television and film, including Eugene Richards’ award-winning documentary but, the day came.
Ken continues to lead his own ensembles and be an in-demand sideman. In recent years he has also become an artist rights activist, serving as co-chair of the Artist Rights Caucus of Local 802 and as a member of the Advisory Committee of Musicians for Musicians (MFM). In April 2019 he participated in the United States Copyright Office’s fifth and final roundtable on reform of section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

A Benefit to Celebrate & Support MFM and We, The World
2019-12-21 19:30 - 2019-12-22 00:00 | Dardo Galletto Studios, 151 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10038, United States
A Benefit to Celebrate & Support The 21st Year of We, The World!
And the 4th Year of Musicians For Musicians!
CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR END-OF-THE-YEAR
HOLIDAY PARTY!!!

Date: SATURDAY DECEMBER 21, 2019
Time: from 7PM till Midnight!
Venue: Dardo Galletto Studios (151 West 46th Street (b/w 6th-7th Avenues), 11th Floor, New York, NY 10038)
And we’ll livestream all the amazing performances too! https://www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign
Please Like this page so you can be notified when broadcasts are starting
Following MFM members have already confirmed performing at this event:
Billy Harper – Sax
Roger Blanc – Guitar
Ken Hatfield – Guitar
Rick Ulfik – Piano
Baba Don Eaton – Percussion
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi – Sax
Dawoud Kringle – Dilruba
Anybody else of the MFM Family who wants to join and perform?
If yes, please email Sohrab (sohrab@MusiciansForMusicians.org) by Thursday, December 19th, 2019 by 11pm.
All MFM Scheduled Performers get in for free. Sohrab will submit all MFM Scheduled Performers’ names and email addresses to Rick Ulfik by Friday December 20th at 5PM so they can be placed on the Official Guest List in advance of the event.

MFM Hudson Valley Chapter Meet Up #1
2020-01-19 14:00 - 15:30 | Church Des Artistes, 79 Wurts Street, Kingston, United States (US), 12401, United States
Run by Stephen Johnson (chapter head) This meeting will feature topics on a variety of musician and music business related subjects of interest to our members and non members in the Hudson Valley.
ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, including music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people… #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Member speaker: Ray Blue, saxophonist, band leader.
Special guest: Harvey Kaiser, saxophonist, Hudson Valley Musicians Union Advocate.
Ticket: $10 for non-members

MFM Public Musicians Forum #19
2020-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of musician and music business related subjects of interest to our members and non members.
ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, including music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.

MFM Public Musicians Forum #20
2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and Billy Harper (BoD). This forum will feature topics on a variety of musician and music business related subjects of interest to our members and non members.
ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, including music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
Agenda
1. Guest speaker musician,band leader and educator Val Kinzler.
She will speak about her “humble” beginnings, the struggle to earn a living as a teaching artist, performer, songwriter while raising her son and will address the importance of securing a support network that allows creative artists to evolve and maintain their skills.
Speaking about the ins and outs as a producer, conceptualist, booker and host of events. And sharing her experience as a mediator in the midst of high stress, conflictual situations dealing with fellow artists and band mates and serendipitous meetings of the mind with some well known greats she’s been fortunate to meet and collaborate with.
She also has a band that still plays live and records and worked as a prevention specialist/counselor for at risk youth teaching songwriting as a positive alternative at the NYC Department Of Education.
Furthermore, she also wants to talk about her upcoming NYC Women Who Rock Festival in March which is in collaboration with New Century ENTERTAINMENT’s Founder Michael McHugh who was the speaker at our last forum.
2. Adam Reifsteck will report about his forthcoming MFM SPEAKS OUT podcast
3. Roger Blanc will speak about the California AB 5 Law and its (negative) impact on freelancing musicians (called independen contractors by Labor Law),
4. Ken Hatfield will speak about and discuss the importance of meta data like the ISRC code.

MFM Public Musicians Forum #20
2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
As always this monthly public meet up is run by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (President) and legendary jazz man Billy Harper (Board member). This forum will feature topics on a variety of musician and music business related subjects of interest to our members and non members.
ALL musicians of ALL genres are invited to attend, including music educators, DJ’s, Hip Hop artists, music advocates, Union people, #UnityInTheMusicCommunity.
AGENDA
1. Guest speaker musician,band leader and educator Val Kinzler.
She will speak about her “humble” beginnings, the struggle to earn a living as a teaching artist, performer, songwriter while raising her son and will address the importance of securing a support network that allows creative artists to evolve and maintain their skills.
Speaking about the ins and outs as a producer, conceptualist, booker and host of events. And sharing her experience as a mediator in the midst of high stress, conflictual situations dealing with fellow artists and band mates and serendipitous meetings of the mind with some well known greats she’s been fortunate to meet and collaborate with.
She also has a band that still plays live and records and worked as a prevention specialist/counselor for at risk youth teaching songwriting as a positive alternative at the NYC Department Of Education.
Furthermore, she also wants to talk about her upcoming NYC Women Who Rock Festival in March which is in collaboration with New Century ENTERTAINMENT’s Founder Michael McHugh who was the speaker at our last forum.
2. Adam Reifsteck will report about his forthcoming MFM SPEAKS OUT podcast
3. Roger Blanc will speak about the California AB 5 Law and its (negative) impact on freelancing musicians (called independen contractors by Labor Law),
4. Ken Hatfield will speak about and discuss the importance of meta data like the ISRC code.

MFM Public Musicians Forum #21 - CANCELED!
2020-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Wingspan Arts, Film Center Building, 630 9th Ave, Suite 602, New York, NY, 10036, United States
