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Combined Unions Choir Records
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Combined Unions Choir Records

  • UQFL475
  • Collection
  • 1988-2023

This collection has records relating to Combined Unions Choir performances including: administrative records, sheet music, schedules, and song lyrics. There are 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Unions Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people. There are two VHS video cassettes, and digital video and audio recordings of their performances.

Combined Unions Choir

Performance records

This series is comprised of records relating to performances including: administrative records, sheet music, schedules, and song lyrics.

Box 1
Folder 1
Marco Shortez. ‘The CUC Inchoiry (working title)’, photocopied, includes score, (removed from plastic folder), 1995?

Folder 2
List of known CUC performances, 2006.
Photocopy of pages from Combined Unions Choir Tenth Anniversary Song Book , 1998.
Newspaper cuttings and articles about the Choir’s history.

Folder 3
Song book, Title unknown (Missing Cover), Forest Lodge: Newsletter Printery, undated.
Working Class and National Songs, photocopied, unknown publication details, undated.

Folders 4-13
Ephemera, articles, photocopies of photographs, Choir notices and information, musical event flyers, folk festival brochures and flyers (including Maleny Folk Festival), sheet music. 1988 to 1997.

Box 2
Folder 1
Song lyrics and planning documents for the recording an audio recording. Printed out from CD-ROM which is also in the folder.

Folder 2
Sheet music and report on the performance of Dust in 2015. Printed out from USB which is also in the folder.

Folder 3
Sheet music, programme, performance notes for the Combined Unions Choir River Works performance. undated.

Folders 4-5
Draft script, booking form, evaluation report, sheet music, travel information for the tour for the Fair Play Cabaret, 2006.

Folder 6
Rehearsal schedule, sheet music, flyers and articles about the Dust, 2013.

Folder 7
Flyers, sheet music, recording script relating to Under the cover of covid, 2021.

Photographs

This series is comprised 564 colour photographs and 13 black and white photographs taken at Combined Union Choir performances and events. Additional digital photographs are on three CDs and there is a folder with photocopied photographs with pencil notes identifying people.

Album 1
Colour photographs (219), black and white photographs (13) and 1 black and white real photo postcard, from 1988 to 1995
Contains photographs grouped by year and under the following headings : 1988. Getting organized; May Day; Christmas. 1989 : May Day; Coffs Harbour , the bus, at the motel, the theatre, meeting the Newcastle People’s Chorus, Rehearsing, Printing T-shirts, Songwriting workshop, Conducting workshop, Discussion and farewell, Recording session, Libby Sara goes bush for six months…, and Michael Roper takes over; Laurel Power elected MLA; Maleny Folk Festival. 1990 : Remembering Ewan McColl and Jim Peterson; Opening the art space under the TWU Buiding; Rehearsal break; Hiroshima Day; Gulf War peace demo; Union of Australian Women 40 years. 1991 : Barcaldine Shearers’ Strike commemoration; the Tree of Knowledge; Speeches; Billet; The re-enactment; Free breakfast from a hotel; Waiting to rehearse; Women’s conference; Inside the theatre; the railway station; Dawn on the way home; May Day in Brisbane; Festival Fringe. 1992 : TLC May Day dinner. 1993 : Maleny, the Flames of Discontent. 1993 : African songs project; African songs concert in Sydney; a billet; box office; back stage; At the concert Solidarity Choir of Sydney; Voices from the Vacant Lot; Halt on the way back to Brisbane; Latin American songs project; Archbishop Tutu sings with the choir. 1994 : Mark Shortis; May Day; Stradbroke Island festival; the new banner; Jacinto Herrera; Christmas. 1995 : Palm Sunday; May Day; Opening the Queensland Women in War exhibition; Union Choir’s greatest hits.

Album 2
Colour photographs (180) from 1996 to 1997
1996 : Festival Hall election rally 27 February; Palm Sunday; Limestone Cabaret - in Ipswich, and Paddington; Emma Miller fundraiser; Commemorating the Ipswich Rail Workshops; Mark and Adrienne’s wedding; At rehearsal; New offices for Queensland Advocacy Inc. 1997: Australia Day Reconciliation Choir; Reconciliation Choir reunion and recording; Palm Sunday; May Day; Lord Mayor’s reception for Archbishop Napier; Anti-racism rally in Ipswich; Choirs to congress; welcome buffet; Conductors meet; Rehearsals – in the TLC Building; and at Culturebank; Concert at Culturebank; Concert in Ipswich; Women’s Reconciliation dinner; Soiree at Roger’s.

Album 3
Colour photographs (165), sizes vary, related to the performances of Fair Play Cabaret, 17 colour photographs of the Hiroshima Day performance, and 6 colour photographs of 'Rekindling', 2006.

Box 1
Folder 14
Photocopied photographs, one photograph each per A4 page; with handwritten notes identifying people. Undated.

Box 2
Items 26-28
Three CDs with digital photographs.

Videos and audio recordings

This series is comprised VHS videos, and digital video and audio recordings.

Box 1
Item 1
Gung Ho to Paradise : a community theatre pageant (copyright ACTU Queensland Branch), VHS.

Item 2
Choirs to Congress 1997, VHS.

Box 2
Folder 8
USB with 10 videos of Combined Union Choir performances, 2018 to 2023. Printout of text file listing the videos is in the folder with the USB.

Items 1-7
Seven audiocassettes of recordings of the Combined Unions Choir.

Items 8-21
Fourteen 3.5-inch computer microdisks (floppy disks) containing files possibly relating to interviews with people associated with the Combined Unions Choir.

Item 21
Combined Unions Choir at Mad Ass Folk Club, CD-R, undated.

Item 22
Gung Ho to Paradise, on DVD-R [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Items 23-24
Choirs to Congress, 1997, on two DVD-R discs [possibly format shifted by Combined Union Choir?]

Item 25
Union Choir movies, undated on CD-RW.