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Blackheath Choir Festival 2016

Illawarra Union Singers Practicing for Blackheath gig, work-shopping songs in the garage.

Work-shopping the repertoire!

A small but dedicated group of Singers traveled to Blackheath on 27 October this year, to take part in the Blackheath Choir Festival…the third time the Illawarra Union Singers have performed there. After an unusual rehearsal in an auto workshop…! They gave a fantastic performance to a full capacity audience at the New Ivanhoe Hotel. Under the wonderful leadership of musical director Doug, and accompanied by Zlatko on guitar, they performed Bandiera Rossa, Tolpuddle Man, Bella Ciao and a rousing, audience participation rendition of 16 Tons!

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Pre-hydration

zlatko

Zlatko in soulful mode.

Mairi Ross and Zlatko, rehearsing at Blackheath

Mairi Ross and Zlatko, rehearsing at Blackheath.

Ross, contemplating performance strategies.

Ross, contemplating performance strategies.

 

Hiroshima Day Commemoration

The Hiroshima Day Commemoration was a very moving event. We rehearsed in the freezing cold outside David Jones.Practicing before the Hiroshima Day performance in the Wollongong Mall 6 August 2016

The choir sang Blowing in the Wind, Ode to Joy and We Shall Overcome, joined by a number of extra choristers.Illlawarra Union Singers Performance: Hiroshima Day 2016

Everyone present tied a paper crane to a memorial branch which was left in the Mall as a reminder of story of Sadako, and her 1000 paper cranes. Sadako was two years old at the time of the bombing and died at the age of 12 from leukemia she contracted as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Before she died, she made 1000 paper cranes; a Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds one thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish.Paper crane at Hiroshima Day Commemoration, 2016

 

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

At Rehearsal: A Few Members, Past and Present

The Two Tenors

The Two Tenors

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

Odd shots

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