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We have 150 members: 68 musicians,
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UPCOMING EVENTS
November 11-14
Every Friday and Saturday
Where is Rick DellaRatta, now?
WEATHER
It's October 1 and it's still 95 degrees!
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Dee Daniels
moved from Canada to NYC and will be a guest on MUSICWOMAN
RADIO October 7
Hear interview with Mimi Johnson by Steph Jordan on Living in
Color
Mimi will perform this month at the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure in Atlanta, GA
on October 14, 2011
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WHO
ARE YOU?
Melody Cole says,
"Join the American Federation of Musicians and start your retirement
account, today! In only five years you will be vested in a fund that pays
out the highest return in the land." Read these pages from the Musician's
Union Handbook
South Florida Musicians Association - Local 655
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October is National Arts and Humanities Month
At the top of our agenda for this month is the Women in Jazz Cruise scheduled for Friday November 11 to Monday November 14, 2011, aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas. Registration is at www.wijsfcruise.com and full payment of $347 is due at this time. It is imperative that you make your reservation by October 24. You MUST have a valid passport! For more information, contact Marika Guyton. We anticipate a wonderful cruise that will help raise funds for our organization.
On September 30, Wings On Women, a subsidiary of Wingspan Seminars, LLC, founded by WIJSF member Priscilla Dames Blake, honored Joan Cartwright with a PEA'CE Award for her work to empower women. Cartwright will be honored on November 9, as Spirit of Excellence Music Leader of the Year by the American Business Women's Association (ABWA). To
end a very hot and humid summer, Joan Cartwright cruised the Caribbean on the
Carnival
Freedom as the guest of Blacks Over 40
with pianist Jamila Sahar.
"We had a
wonderful time and this cruise made the whole of 2011 worth every
moment," Joan said. Many thanks to Anthony Jackson, his sister
Phyllis and Myrtle
Naylor for this wonderful opportunity and adventure. See photos at www.wijsf.com/photos.htm
On
Thursday, September 15, Jamila Sahar and Joan Cartwright performed a
private concert aboard the Carnival Freedom, after leaving the port of Tortola. In Tortola,
they met Alnando, who said he has a license to open a music school and
invited Joan and Jamila, who just completed her Master's degree in
Music at Florida International University, to come to Tortola to teach
music. It's a very tempting proposal!
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On Friday, October 7 @ 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.
EST, Joan Cartwright will
interview vocalist and composer Dee
Daniels on Musicwoman Internet Radio.
We need your continued support. Please pay your current dues! Our
member Caryn Danzy from Bayshore, Long Island has organized a site to help
us raise funds. Click on the banner below and see if you see something
that interests you.
If you're interested, send an email to info@wijsf.org
with the number of CDs you would like to order and you will receive
payment instructions. The
WIJSF CRUISE departs on November 11 from Miami, Florida. Registration is
open until October 24. For more information visit the website www.wijsfcruise.com
proceeds from this cruise will benefit WIJSF.
Thanks to Marika Guyton of AboutU4U,
Inc. for organizing our cruise.
WIJSF CRUISE November 11-14, 2011
M E D I A B L I T Z
Vocalist Juanita Dixon discusses the resurgence of Jazz!
GOOD
NEWS FOR WOMEN IN JAZZ! THE
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS - PENSION PLAN
The
American Federation of Musicians offers an opportunity with a
retirement and pension package that is in the top 1% in the country.
With contributions of up to 15% of their earnings, musicians get
vested in only five (5) years!
Learn
about the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) - Local 655 online
at www.afm655.com and explore
this great opportunity. Women live longer and we must prepare for
our later years, in a deliberate manner.
I just reinstated my membership. A representative of Local AFM 655
will meet with us to share the benefits of membership. Let’s take
advantage this, now! I’m on the 5-year plan! ~ Melody
Cole - 954-829-6009 - melocole1@aol.com
www.wijsf.org
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WHAT WE DO: [See HERSTORY and JAZZWOMEN DIRECTORY] Our membership
is increasing steadily as we to submit grant proposals for funding.
COMMUNITY
MUSICWOMEN performed at four senior centers in Miami Beach, through a
grant from Miami
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Our
condolences to WIJSF member Lorna Lesperance whose mother transitioned
on Thursday, September 29. Our heartfelt love goes out to Lorna and
members are encouraged to 
We're
collecting 10 original songs from members for our WIJSF Compilation CD Volume II
to be released in
January 2012. If you are a composer and have a song you want to
contribute, please contact Joan at 
Friday September Sep
30 Steph Jordan interviewed WIJSF Secretary 
It's our joy to share the gift of music with others. However, we may
overlook the need to care for ourselves or feel inadequate in this
activity because we don’t have “regular” jobs. Maybe we have
no idea where to begin. What I’m referring to is a pension for our
retirement years. Few musicians have a 401K package and that is even
unreliable, in today’s financial environment.
