Tag Archive: Illawarra Union Singers
Blackheath Choir Festival 2016
August 29, 2016
Work-shopping the repertoire!
A small but dedicated group of Singers traveled to Blackheath on 27 October this year, to take part in the Blackheath Choir Festival…the third time the Illawarra Union Singers have performed there. After an unusual rehearsal in an auto workshop…! They gave a fantastic performance to a full capacity audience at the New Ivanhoe Hotel. Under the wonderful leadership of musical director Doug, and accompanied by Zlatko on guitar, they performed Bandiera Rossa, Tolpuddle Man, Bella Ciao and a rousing, audience participation rendition of 16 Tons!
Pre-hydration
Zlatko in soulful mode.
Mairi Ross and Zlatko, rehearsing at Blackheath.
Ross, contemplating performance strategies.
Hiroshima Day Commemoration
August 29, 2016
The Hiroshima Day Commemoration was a very moving event. We rehearsed in the freezing cold outside David Jones.
The choir sang Blowing in the Wind, Ode to Joy and We Shall Overcome, joined by a number of extra choristers.
Everyone present tied a paper crane to a memorial branch which was left in the Mall as a reminder of story of Sadako, and her 1000 paper cranes. Sadako was two years old at the time of the bombing and died at the age of 12 from leukemia she contracted as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Before she died, she made 1000 paper cranes; a Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds one thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish.
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
At Rehearsal: A Few Members, Past and Present
August 5, 2016
The Two Tenors
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
