{"id":226,"date":"2012-04-11T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unionsingers.wordpress.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:55:13","slug":"what-a-great-weekend-nff-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"What a great weekend! NFF 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mairi’s thoughts on the National Folk Festival in Canberra (and photo courtesy of Bill and Diane):<\/p>\n

Singing on the stage with so many people – even if the stage collapsed towards the end – was an amazing experience and one which I will remember for a long time.\u00a0 Even our quick exit off stage seemed as if it was planned.\u00a0 Many of my friends thought that was in the plan – that we would sing the last couple of songs down with the audience!\u00a0 We were so orderly getting off stage it was amazing.<\/p>\n

Our street choir gigs went off well I think.<\/p>\n

So, a huge thank you to all of us who went to Canberra<\/p>\n

I feel so very sorry for those who could not make it.\u00a0 You missed a great weekend.<\/p>\n

A huge thanks also to Catherine’s Mother who made such a lovely banner for us.\u00a0 We proudly carried it along the street, and it was greatly admired.<\/p>\n

When we sang our first streert choir numbers a woman from Dubbo invited us to a Singing Workshop weekend at Dubbo on the first weekend in May.\u00a0 It sounded really good, so we might like to think about it.<\/p>\n

As well, I noticed there is a Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival on October 26th-28th.\u00a0 Dorrigo is a beautiful little village on the north coast of NSw.\u00a0 Maybe we might like to think about that too.<\/p>\n

As we said last week, we will not have Choir this coming Thursday.\u00a0 I think we deserve a bit of a rest.\u00a0 So see you all on Thursday April 19th.<\/p>\n

Regards,
\nMairi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mairi’s thoughts on the National Folk Festival in Canberra (and photo courtesy of Bill and Diane): Singing on the stage with so many people – even if the stage collapsed towards the end – was an amazing experience and one which I will remember for a long time.\u00a0 Even our quick exit off stage seemed […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=208","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":0},"title":"Latest from Brian for 2012","author":"broaderleft","date":"January 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"First half of the year we have Cobargo Folk Festival, 25th & 26th February Coledale Public School 150th Anniversary, 31st March (Date to be confirmed) National Folk Festival, Canberra, Easter weekend May Day Toast, (Date to be confirmed) Combined Choir's get-together, Newcastle, Sat, June 2nd & Sunday, June 3rd","rel":"","context":"In "Gigs"","block_context":{"text":"Gigs","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?cat=189"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2137,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=2137","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":1},"title":"Gigs Gone By: Images and Memories","author":"broaderleft","date":"August 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Some images from gigs gone by starting with the Nymagee (120 k's from Cobar) concert in October 2006 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to Cobargo for the Cobargo Folk Festival \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Past Gigs and Memories"","block_context":{"text":"Past Gigs and Memories","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?cat=204"},"img":{"alt_text":"General photo of Nymagee","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/imgp2117_11-300x193.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=271","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":2},"title":"More Illawarra Folk Festival Photos","author":"dreamthinkplay","date":"January 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"These courtesy of Margo McLaughlin, with thanks!","rel":"","context":"In "Gigs"","block_context":{"text":"Gigs","link":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?cat=189"},"img":{"alt_text":"IllawarraUnionSingers_IFF2013_onstage","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/illawarraunionsingers_iff2013_onstage.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/illawarraunionsingers_iff2013_onstage.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/illawarraunionsingers_iff2013_onstage.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=180","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":3},"title":"Singing Spooky-style","author":"dreamthinkplay","date":"June 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephen Taberner's Workshop was fantastic, and later when we got to sing the Tool song with his group the Spooky Men's Chorale, live on stage, woo hoo! 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