Category Archive: Past Gigs and Memories
Tom Uren Funeral 2015: Vale Tom Uren
August 5, 2016
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015, some members of the IUS were privileged to join the massed trade union choir which sang at the State Funeral of Labor and Union luminary, Tom Uren, in the Sydney Town Hall. The choir were invited to sing by Tom himself, who had planned his funeral 10 years earlier! As part of the moving and heartfelt ceremony, the choir sang the National Anthem, accompanied by Robert Ampt on the magnificent Town Hall organ, then later sang The Ballad of 1981, in what the Sydney Morning Herald described as “a rousing live rendition of The Ballad of 1891 (about the great shearers’ strike)…”
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- Barry ready to go as usual in the Bass section.
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- Gary got a good position in the front.
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- Almost all the Choir.
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- Florence in the thick of it.
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- Illawarra Union Singers who attended Tom Uren’s funeral.
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- Choir for Tom Uren’s funeral.
Judy Turner at rehearsal
Choir members rehearsing
Gigs Gone By: Images and Memories
August 5, 2016
Some images from gigs gone by starting with the Nymagee (120 k’s from Cobar) concert in October 2006
General photo of Nymagee
Breakfast time at the humble abode
On stage doing the gig
On stage doing the gig
Practice at the humble abode
Practice at the humble abode
No traffic lights on country roads
In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to Cobargo for the Cobargo Folk Festival
General photo of Nymagee
Breakfast time at the humble abode
On stage doing the gig
On stage doing the gig
Practice at the humble abode
Practice at the humble abode
No traffic lights on country roads
Scene / seen on the way
In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to the Cobargo Folk Festival
Odd shots
