Lone Ranger is looking for contract musicians

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The casting director for The Lone Ranger is looking for contract musicians. Anyone interested should email Alexis at [e-mail] with a headshot (need not be a professional pic, just a photo of their face) and a contact phone number. She'll send the info on to the casting director, who makes the final determination of who will be cast. Anyone interested will need to be willing to become Musicians’ Union members- this is a union job. Must be 18 or older and a US citizen to be cast.


Here’s what they're looking for:


Bluegrass band- retro/youngish look, all male
Tentative dates
March 9—fitting
March 12- rehearsal
March 13 and 14- filming


Need: piano, fiddle, trumpet, t-bone, bass clarinet which doubles on accordion


Marching band- all-male
mid April (dates are TBA)
16 members, flexible instrumentation, middle-aged Caucasian
Need: fife, trumpets, t-bones, tuba, snare, cymbals, bass drum


Temperance Society band
Also mid-April
Need: Accordion/squeezebox, trombone, snare, cymbal, triangle- at least one female, possibly on triangle


Pay:
This is an AFM contract. The pay is $198.62 per day, plus, 10.9 pension, $36.54 health and welfare for each service. Doubling is 25% for first double and 10% each additional instrument. Fitting pay is approximately $38.00 depending on time.














Diahndra Grill
Program Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program
University of New Mexico
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