At 6:06 PM -0500 1/15/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
You shouldn't assume that even community music organizations are unpade. When I was in high school I played in the Carlinville Municipal Band. It was subsidized by the AFM Music Performance Trust Fund (whose purpose was to promote live music, and which today seems to be called the Music Perfornance Fund), and everyone had to join the union to play in it and everyone got paid. It wasn't much, but we were getting paid.
Oh no! Sorry for the misunderstanding. I wasn't implying that ALL community music was 100% volunteer, but pointing out that in some cases--many cases, actually--it is. Around here it's the norm. I suspect that any possible combination exists somewhere, even though IN THEORY union musicians aren't supposed to play with non-union.
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