Category Archive: Past Gigs and Memories

Tom Uren Funeral 2015: Vale Tom Uren

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015, some members of the IUS were privileged to join the massed trade union choir which sang at the State Funeral of Labor and Union luminary, Tom Uren, in the Sydney Town Hall. The choir were invited to sing by Tom himself, who had planned his funeral 10 years earlier! As part of the moving and heartfelt ceremony, the choir sang the National Anthem, accompanied by Robert Ampt on the magnificent Town Hall organ, then later sang The Ballad of 1981, in what the Sydney Morning Herald described as “a rousing live rendition of The Ballad of 1891 (about the great shearers’ strike)…”

Judy Turner at rehearsal

Judy Turner at rehearsal

Choir members rehearsing

Choir members rehearsing

Gigs Gone By: Images and Memories

Some images from gigs gone by starting with the Nymagee (120 k’s from Cobar) concert in October 2006

General photo of Nymagee

General photo of Nymagee

Breakfast time at the humble abode

Breakfast time at the humble abode

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

 

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

No traffic lights on country roads

No traffic lights on country roads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scene / seen on the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to Cobargo for the Cobargo Folk Festival

 

General photo of Nymagee

General photo of Nymagee

Breakfast time at the humble abode

Breakfast time at the humble abode

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

No traffic lights on country roads

No traffic lights on country roads

Scene / seen on the way

Scene / seen on the way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to the Cobargo Folk Festival

Tilba Tilba Cobargo 7 Cobargo 6 Cobargo 3 Cobargo 2

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