Category Archive: Gigs

We had a great day at the Blackheath Choir festival, such lovely venue and audience. Plenty of support from the audience with this one, always a crowd pleaser. Especially the line about the bonus for the Chairman of the Board…
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We’re learning 2 new songs for Blackheath, and here are some practice tracks for you.

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.  Even our quick exit off stage seemed as if it was planned.  Many of my friends thought that was in the plan – that we would sing the last couple of songs down with the audience!  We were so orderly getting off stage it was amazing.

Our street choir gigs went off well I think.

So, a huge thank you to all of us who went to Canberra

I feel so very sorry for those who could not make it.  You missed a great weekend.

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

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.  It sounded really good, so we might like to think about it.

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

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

Regards,
Mairi

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

and here we go onstage with Bernard Carney during the Fred Paterson Tribute

Bernard Carney and the Illawarra Union Singers

What a shame i did not get a photo of us all looking fabulous at the Art Gallery today. We had just about everybody there, a full contingent of singers and all parts well covered. We sounded great and thanks to Brian for sorting song order, and Zlatko for warming the group up and practicing a few numbers before i arrived. We sang: Let’s Pretend, Last Night i had the strangest dream, Step by Step, Mnogaja Ljeta, Banaha, and Solidarity. I think it gave the audience a taste of what we’ll bring to the Folk Festival in january, as well as give us confidence. Next step – finalise that new Coal Seam Gas song…

These photos were taken after we’d warmed up, and while we had something to eat.