{"id":180,"date":"2011-06-05T23:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsingers.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/05\/singing-spooky-style\/"},"modified":"2011-06-05T23:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:15:42","slug":"singing-spooky-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Singing Spooky-style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Taberner&#8217;s Workshop was fantastic, and later when we got to sing the Tool song with his group the Spooky Men&#8217;s Chorale, live on stage, woo hoo! Their performance was spectacular musically, and made me laugh til the tears were running down my face. <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092049.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092049.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"20110605-092049.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092130.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092130.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"20110605-092130.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092204.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamthinkplay.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/20110605-092204.jpg?w=715\" alt=\"20110605-092204.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Taberner&#8217;s Workshop was fantastic, and later when we got to sing the Tool song with his group the Spooky Men&#8217;s Chorale, live on stage, woo hoo! Their performance was spectacular musically, and made me laugh til the tears were running down my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[189,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":196,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=196","url_meta":{"origin":180,"position":0},"title":"Combined Union Choirs warm-up","author":"dreamthinkplay","date":"January 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It was fantastic to see the singers from Sydney, Newcastle and even one from Tasmania arrive and get organised to sing together for the Illawarra Folk Festival. 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