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We were this Friday’s “mystery performers”. I think our Choir T-shirts kinda gave the game away a bit early in the evening. But that’s Ok…<\/p>\n

We sang “One World, One Chance”, “In My Shoes” (about refugees, featuring Zlatko on guitar), “Let’s Pretend” (environmental parody, featuring us all on kazoos) and “Holi Shla Shla” (classic apartheid-era freedom song from South Africa.) We had them clapping out the rhythms at the end…<\/p>\n

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The choir before our performance<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were this Friday’s “mystery performers”. I think our Choir T-shirts kinda gave the game away a bit early in the evening. But that’s Ok… We sang “One World, One Chance”, “In My Shoes” (about refugees, featuring Zlatko on guitar), “Let’s Pretend” (environmental parody, featuring us all on kazoos) and “Holi Shla Shla” (classic apartheid-era […]<\/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-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1817,"url":"https:\/\/www.illawarraunionsingers.com.au\/?p=1817","url_meta":{"origin":24,"position":0},"title":"May Day toast","author":"dreamthinkplay","date":"May 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Another good night out at the Hellenic Club. 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