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31st July marks the anniversary of the Mt Kembla Disaster, where 96 men and boys lost their lives in the explosion at the mine. It was one of the worst disasters in Australian history, devastating the community for years to come.
\nEach year, on the anniversary of the disaster, a commemorative ceremony \u201c96 Candles\u201d is held at the Windy Gully cemetery at Mt Kembla.
\nThis year, the Illawarra Union Singers were privileged to take part in the ceremony, singing two mining songs as part of the event. They performed \u201cWindy Gully\u201d, the song written by Illawarra playwright Wendy Richardson, who sang with the choir, in an arrangement by choir member Florence Rankin. The choir also sang \u201cWorking Man\u201d, a song prompted by the stories of miners’ daily hardships, which became the unofficial anthem for coal miners everywhere.
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31st July marks the anniversary of the Mt Kembla Disaster, where 96 men and boys lost their lives in the explosion at the mine. It was one of the worst disasters in Australian history, devastating the community for years to come. Each year, on the anniversary of the disaster, a commemorative ceremony \u201c96 Candles\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2144,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=2144","url_meta":{"origin":2101,"position":0},"title":"Tom Uren Funeral 2015: Vale Tom Uren","author":"broaderleft","date":"August 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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