Past Event

I'll Be There: Songs & Stories of Solidarity

16th Nov 2012 - 17th Nov 2012

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Presenter: Victorian Trade Union Choir
Website: http://georgemannmusic.com/
Event Duration: 75 minutes

Created and produced by choir members with award winning playwright Rebecca Lister and Musical Director Michael Roper, I’ll Be There! is an hour of songs and stories – funny, scary, moving and inspiring – gathered from the rich history of the trade union and labour movements and the Victorian Trade Union Choir.

The Choir has sung for 22 years at rallies, protests, strikes, marches and commemorations. The show presents a diverse repertoire of music includingtrade union favourites such as Solidarity, Billy Bragg’s Power in a Union, South African freedom song We shall not give up the fight, Kev Carmody’s Freedom and celebrates union achievements such as the Eight Hour Day. It tells stories of the power of song in unlikely places:

•    At the bottom of a swimming pool
•    On the back of a truck escaping Contra gunfire in Nicaragua
•    On a picket line in a wedding dress – between the ceremony and the reception.