Live Music
is Best!
The Hartford-New Haven Federation of Musicians
Local 400, AFM

*Union Musicians*
We Make The Music Happen!
Offices:
1800 Silas Deane Hgwy.
Stepny Place, Suite 1
Rocky Hill, CT  06067
(For directions, Click Here)

Phone:
860-563-1606

Fax:
860-563-1501

Email:
local400@afm.org

Office Hours:
Mon-Fri
11am-3pm

Please call before stopping
by, we are sometimes out of
the office on Union
business.
Jeff Fuller

The Hartford-New Haven Federation of Musicians was formed
on January 1, 2009, through the merger of Local 234 (New
Haven), with Local 400 (Hartford).  We are now the largest AFM
Local in Connecticut, with over 500 members.  Our merger will
allow us to provide more and better services to our members.


The Greater New Haven Federation of Musicians, Local 234,
AFM, was organized on September 22, 1901 as the New Haven
Musical Protective Association and was affiliated as such with
the American Federation of Musicians on September 4,1902. Its
goals at that time were "to unite the Instrumental portion of the
Musical Profession, the establishment and maintenance of a
minimum wage scale, the advancement and conservation of the
individual and collective interests of its Members, the
enforcement of good faith and fair dealing by and between its
Members, and the promotion and stimulation of a true fraternal
feeling among the Membership as a whole".

That mission remains unchanged to this day, though we now
include vocalists among our members. In addition, we
administer CBAs (contracts) with the Hartford Symphony, New
Haven Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra New England. We
also assist in funding live music performances within our
jurisdiction through the Music Performance Fund (MPF, formerly
the MPTF or Music Performance Trust Fund). Our disabled
members in financial need are offered assistance through the
Lester Petrillo Memorial Fund. All members of Local 400 have
access to a wide variety of professional services offered
through the AFM, including legal help, contract administration,
liability insurance for performers, instrument insurance, pension
funds, a subscription to the IM (International Musician, the
monthly official journal of the AFM), loan programs, credit card
programs and much more.
About Local 400, AFM