Illawarra Union Singers

We perform at events including peace rallies, union conferences and rallies, picket lines, street markets, folk and music festivals, memorials and celebrations. Our repertoire covers songs of peace and social justice, the environment, human rights, industrial and political issues and historical Australian ballads.

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)…”

: Barry ready to go as usual in the Bass section.

: Gary got a good position in the front.

: Almost all the Choir.

: Florence in the thick of it.

: Illawarra Union Singers who attended Tom Uren’s funeral.

: Choir for Tom Uren’s funeral.

Judy Turner at rehearsal

Judy Turner at rehearsal

Choir members rehearsing

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

General photo of Nymagee

Breakfast time at the humble abode

Breakfast time at the humble abode

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

No traffic lights on country roads

No traffic lights on country roads

In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to Cobargo for the Cobargo Folk Festival

General photo of Nymagee

General photo of Nymagee

Breakfast time at the humble abode

Breakfast time at the humble abode

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

On stage doing the gig

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

Practice at the humble abode

No traffic lights on country roads

No traffic lights on country roads

Scene / seen on the way

Scene / seen on the way

In 2007 the Illawarra Union Singers travelled to the Cobargo Folk Festival

Odd shots