{"id":2110,"date":"2015-11-13T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2015-11-13T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:31:03","slug":"more-broken-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"More Broken Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trip to Broken Hill was a great success! We had a warm welcome from the Broken Hill Community Voices, who sang several songs with us at the two concerts. They also taught us three new songs, which we sang with them at the concert on Sunday: Soyilwela, Blowing in the Wind and Maryijana, a Croatian love song. We plan to incorporate them into our repertoire.
\nThe venues for the concerts were excellent, especially the Art Gallery, which was an elegant space with wonderful acoustics. The audiences were appreciative and we sang well, a varied and interesting repertoire, including our new songs and old favourites. Our newly found banner, with added flair by Mairi, and our new Red Flag, were proudly displayed and added a real touch of theatre to the performances!
\nThere were many highlights of the trip: singing \u201cBandiera Rossa\u201d over Mairi\u2019s mobile phone in her Pakistani friends takeaway caf\u00e9 in Dubbo, for the ABC to broadcast with an interview about the choir, was one! Pizzas in Cobar; the road trip through the outback, with stops at bizarre roadhouses, impromptu picnics in the desert, kangaroos, emus and lots of feral goats! The wonderful Trades Hall; the Sculpture Park; the moving memorial to those killed in the mines. And of course the Palace Hotel, which is glorious, and where we became fixtures at the bar!
\nBy Diane
\n

\"Choir<\/a>

Almost there<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Fun<\/a>

Fun at the Palace Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Saturday<\/a>

Saturday concert<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Zlatko<\/a>

Zlatko finds heaven<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trip to Broken Hill was a great success! We had a warm welcome from the Broken Hill Community Voices, who sang several songs with us at the two concerts. They also taught us three new songs, which we sang with them at the concert on Sunday: Soyilwela, Blowing in the Wind and Maryijana, a […]<\/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":true,"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-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2104,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=2104","url_meta":{"origin":2110,"position":0},"title":"Broken Hill","author":"rod13mac@yahoo.com","date":"September 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"An enthusiastic group of singers will be travelling to Broken Hill on the weekend of 5-6 September 2015, to sing at the anniversary of the pegging out of the first mineral lease by Charles Rasp, on 5 September 1883. 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