It was a lovely sunny day inside and outside the little old church in Blackheath – packed full of audience – to hear our concert. Here is the video of the Eric Bogle song we sang for the first time. Very moving, well done guys. And a big thanks to our courageous tenors Zlatko Jevic and Rod Mackenzie for singing the heartfelt verses for us.
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It was a lovely sunny day inside and outside the little old church in Blackheath – packed full of audience – to hear our concert. Here is the video of the Eric Bogle song we sang for the first time. Very moving, well done guys. And a big thanks to our courageous tenors Zlatko Jevic […]<\/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-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":393,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=393","url_meta":{"origin":236,"position":0},"title":"Blackheath 2014","author":"broaderleft","date":"September 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday 23rd August saw the Illawarra Union Singers performing at the Ivanhoe Hotel in Blackheath as part of the Blackheath Choral Festival. 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