“All of the drawing is by Dallas Symphony Orchestra violinist, Sho-mei Pelletier, and she cleverly includes cool facts about each composer in their image, usually hidden among their clothing,” said Pine. “The coloring book also includes a biography of each of the 40 composers.”
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Read moreWhile performing in one of our MusicFest Performances (sponsored by Music Performance Trust Fund) at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, Shelley Carrol takes a moment to explain about the Texas Tenor tradition in the Count Basie Orchestra.
With the innovations of Dallas area musician Buster Smith and the formation of the Buster Smith–Count Basie Band a new technique of louder jazz came to be. The sound came from Buster
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The new new year has brought good news for the AFM & Employers Pension Fund. In its first action in the 116th Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bipartisan bill that would address the serious challenges faced by the AFM-EPF and other multi-employer pension funds.
Introduced by Rep. Richard Neal, D-MA, the newly minted chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act has a total of 10 sponsors, five from each party.
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The new new year has brought good news for the AFM & Employers Pension Fund. In its first action in the 116th Congress, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bipartisan bill that would address the serious challenges faced by the AFM-EPF and other multi-employer pension funds.
Introduced by Rep. Richard Neal, D-MA, the newly minted chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act has a total of 10 sponsors, five from each party.
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“We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop … I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” These prophetic words by Martin Luther King, Jr. were spoken in support for striking union workers less than 24 hours before his tragic assassination on April 4, 1968. The labor movement remembers his historic contribution.
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As the partial government shutdown that began on December 22 drags on, 800,000 federal workers are now feeling the pain of the political stalemate between the White House and Congress. Hundreds of our fellow union members are NOT receiving paychecks right here in Dallas/Fort Worth. Whether they are furloughed, or suffering mandatory work without pay, these are our brothers and sisters who are hurting the most through this shut down. This is how we can help
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Last year’s “Meet and Greet + Jam Session” Series held by Local 72-147 will be extended and expanded for 2019. Plans for new events to reach out to the Community are underway. Building upon a series of “lunchtime concerts” in Dallas’ Klyde Warren Park, featuring Local 72-147 Musicians, an event spotlighting local talent, bringing together the music community and providing a free community concert for the citizens of Dallas is in the works.
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Since the 1950s Dallas Summer Musicals has been the home of the best quality musical theater available. The musicians filling
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In Dr. Kings final speech, he spoke for justice to Union workers. In providing aid and support to the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, Dr. King had been to Memphis twice in the month leading up to this day: speaking a at rally before 15,000 people and returning for a march. When the march erupted in violence and had to be called off, King returned again to restore nonviolence to the movement.
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