Thank you directors of LOL: Sue Johnson (current) and former directors Tracey Miller, Melanie Shanahan, Stephen Tabbener, Steph Payne and theatre work with director Vanessa Chapple
UP AND COMING EVENTS
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GIGS & VIDEOS
2025
CresFest April 4-6 2025 LOL will be rocking the streets at 3pm, Saturday, April 5, at this fabulous and FUN festival weekend in Creswick! Singing outside the Creswick Post Office.together with Sue Johnson’s Combined Forces - Trolls Pagan Angels and Women Of Love & Fury !
We are super excited that the extraordinary Sydney artist Holly Austin joins us, bringing her magnificent vocal magic & beat boxing to a couple of our brand-new songs!
CresFest Tickets are selling fast! https://cresfest.com.au/ Check out the amazing headliners and full program !
Artist Holly Austin is creating a fabulous kite choir Read more here and please consider donating to support this amazing young artist’s work!
Combined Forces Rehearse for CresFest : PHOTO CREDIT Katie Hill Brown
2024
Queenscliff LOL Choir Camp August 2024 A sublime weekend of singing, feasting, conversation, beach walks, poems, cheese ‘o’clock (like serious!) dancing, pelican air-bourne-egg dodging and singing with the Bellarine community in this beautiful place. With gratitude to Kate, Francesca and Heather for creating this magic weekend for us.
With thanks to cheesemonger Janette from Bill's Farm Deli in Queen Victoria Market
Queenscliff benefit concert & workshop led by Sue Johnson & Living Out Loud (SOLD OUT) CRAG; Combined Refugee Action Group & QRAR; Queenscliff Rural Australians For Refugees • Sunday Aug 11th • 2.30-4pm Queenscliff Uniting Church.
Thank you to all who joined us for this wonderful event. Together we raised over $2000!!!!!
3 Songs for 3CR Friday 2nd August 7.30pm 2024 at 1 Mark St. North Fitzroy with Therese Virtue’s Mixed Drinks, Gorani, Carl Panuzzo’s Feel Good Choir, Kavisha Mazella’s Lingua Madre & Iaki Vallejo’s Sonidos Del Alma
20th Anniversary Abbotsford Convent Combined Forces, Photo Andreas Kiefel
Celebrating 20 years @ Abbotsford Convent, Memories, moments, momentum. Combined Forces, Living Out Loud, Trolls, Pagan Angels, WOLF, 27 April 2024 1pm
20th Anniversary Abbotsford Convent Photo Andreas Kiefel
“There is something truly beautiful about singing with others, Yesterday, I felt embraced by the majestic tree we sang in front of. It not only offered shelter and watched over our belongings but also seemed like a blending station, harmonsing our voices with those who came before us.
For a long time I’ve imagined that whilst we walk this earth, every experience during our existence is creating our signature song, we create the most incredible, unique score. The light moments, the dark moments, the inane, the insane, the unbearable, the depressive, the chaotic, the wistful, the loving, all our moments are the components that make the song we are here to create, we can make it as grand and loud or soft and whimsical as we choose,
And, as we depart the physical realm, our song is set free into the atmosphere. It becomes part of the very air we breathe, embraced by the earth, trees, rivers, oceans, and mountains.” - Cleo Moore, singer Living Out loud.
CresFest 2024 Rocking the streets of Creswick with Sue Johnson’s Combined Forces April 6th, 1pm Creswick Post Office
With thanks to Stella Saavy and CresFest 2024 for the fabulous festival fun.
2023
Federation Square Christmas Choir Program Sat 2nd Dec, 6pm
3 Songs for 3CR Friday 15th September 2023, 7.30pm at 1 Mark St. North Fitzroy
Gertrude Street Projection Festival, August 2023 Winter magic roving the streets under the artful projections
Harmony Day, Janssen Centre multi-faith cultures and community groups joining together in song
2022
Gertrude Street Projection Festival flash mobs in the streets under amazing projections.
Living Out Loud warmed the wintry night, made the street come to life and brought such joy!
Priya Namana CEO, Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2022
"The rumours are true! My experience of listening to LOL on Gertrude St was utterly sublime.”
Jo Leishman, Producer Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2022
Songs On Swan Video “Walk My Own Revolution” composed by Sue Johnson featuring Living Out Loud with friends from WOLF (Women Of Love & Fury ) and Trolls with thanks to the Boite, City of Yarra, Stepping Stone Films and Australia Council For The Arts, soloist Kristie Glab.
Equinox Talks Centre For A Compassionate Society, Talk by David Tracy, Music by Living Out Loud
2021
Garrawang Festive Yarra - 'Tis The Season - Singers on the Steps
Carols At the Community Church of St Marks
"It Doesn’t Get More Covid Than This” Lockdown Six ‘Coffee Table’ e-Book & Song In the depths of Melbourne lockdown four choirs - Sue Johnson’s Trolls, Pagan Angels, Prana Mob and Living Out Loud, came together to write a song…
2019
“Love Love Love” Flash Mob @ the Wedding of Morgan and Mike.
Gertrude St Projection Festival
3 Songs for 3CR supports Music Sans Frontieres, presented by The Boite
Ecopella & Living Out Loud A joint concert to celebrate the beauty of our world - Abbotsford Convent
Choirs at The District Docklands, Celebrating 40 years of diversity
Ten Year Bushfire Anniversary, City of Whittlesea
2018
Grand Hotel Grand Show A cappella voices
Abbotsford Slow Food Market
3 songs for 3CR radiothon
Music for takayna / Tarkine fundraiser
Carols CCSM
2017
Abbotsford Convent Combined Forces Massed choir Living Out Loud, Trolls, Pagan Angels, Wolf, Rotunda Restoration Celebration 10 Dec 2017 (Photos Chris Riordan, 2 Degrees of Separation)
Living Out Loud participated in The Climate Choir with 650 singers in towns and cities around Australia on November 5th, 2017 - the eve of the United Nations Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany - singing All The Wild Wonders by Elizabeth Honey and Sue Johnson - to send a message to world leaders that we wanted them to be courageous as they negotiate global agreements on carbon emissions and other strategies to reduce the human impact on our planet…
Florence Blanchot’s Les Rêves Exhibition Opening 13th October 2017
GospelFest
Jessie Lloyd’s Mission Songs project: massed choir Melbourne Town Hall
Gertrude Street Projection Festival
Carols CCSM
2016
Flash mob Private Wedding
Gertrude Street Projection Festival
Carols CCSM
Xmas Singing In The Street Clifton Hill
2015
The Oratory, Abbotsford Convent CD recording
Community Church of St Mark, Clifton Hill CD recording
Gertrude Street Projection Festival
BOYCHOIR publicity screening Nova Cinema
Carols CCSM
Xmas Singing In The Street Clifton Hill
2014
Dec CCSM Carols
Dec Singing In The Street Clifton Hill
August Flash mob at Blackmans Brewery Torquay
July Gertrude Street Projection Festival
2013
Dec Carols In The Street Clifton Hill
December LOL concert at St Marks Church Clifton Hill
September 3 songs for 3CR radiothon
July Gertrude Street Projection Festival
April Light in WInter Festival Federation Square
2012
Nov Abbotsford Convent Open Day
July Gertrude Street Projection Festival
April Get Vocal ; Vocal Australia Chapel Off Chapel
2011
Prana House Xmas concert
Surrey Music Café Concert with Alan Lee & Jo Abbott Quartet
2010
The Whirled Wired Web Lives Out Loud - Mal Webb and LOL - Northcote Uniting Church
2008
Coco’s Lunch/Sashird Lao/Living Out Loud – East Brunswick Club
Live 3MBS
Coco’s Lunch/Living Out Loud concert - Northcote Uniting Church
The Boite Winter Festival
Sustainable Living Festival – Federation Square
2007
Challenge MD! 2007 with Akasa
BMW Edge Boite Winter Festival
Surrey Hills Music Café
Live to air 3LO evening
2006
The Boite World Music Café
City of Yarra Citizenship Ceremony
Collingwood Children’s Farm Slow Food Festival
Sustainability Festival - Federation Square
Songs of Spirit Concert Series - Northcote Uniting Church
2005
Melanie Shanahan Memorial Concert, Coburg Town Hall
Surrey Hills Music Café, Box Hill Community Centre
Opening of the Living & Learning Centre, Eltham
2004
Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square January Melbourne Museum Twilight Concerts, February
2003
Living Out Loud CD Launch, East Brunswick Hotel, November
Big Day Out, September
Darebin Music Feast
Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, March
2002
Vichealth AGM, Government House, Melbourne, December
Surrey Hills Music Cafe , October
SIEV X Memorial Ceremony, Edwards Lake Reservoir, October
Barbukka Cafe , Stephanie Payne, NMIT Recital, October
“Music Woke Me” Cabaret, The Gooch., October
Boite Winter Festival, 2 performances August
Gosama Concert, Melbourne April
Bendigo Gospel Festival
Port Fairy Folk Festival, Stage 1, Festival Arena March
Yarra Community Day, Edinburgh Gardens, February
2001
Fitzroy Gallery , December
Spring Fling Festival, North Melbourne Town Hall, November
Boite Winter Festival, Lithuania House Southgate Outdoor Concert Series , July
ABC 3LO ‘Live to Air ’
Boite Winter Festival Concert, Museum Victoria
Bendigo Gospel Music Festival , April
Nillumbik Festival of the Arts, Monsalvat, 2002 April
Multicultural Variety Concert, Melbourne Town Hall Kew Cottages Festival, March
Boite Café CD Launch February
Daylesford Singers Festival January
2000
Flower Temple Fairfield, December
Jubilee 2000 Festival, Treasury Gardens, September
Boite Winter Festival , June
Songlines, Eltham , May
World Music at the Fairfield Amphitheatre, January
1999
Boite Winter Festival, July
Melbourne Millennium Concert, Melbourne Concert Hall, June
Shepparton Arts Festival, March
Daylesford Singers Festival, January
1998
St Kilda Naidoc Week Concert, July
Mayors Community Day, Reconciliation Festival, April
Boite World Music Café , May
AIDS Council Fundraiser, St. Kilda Town Hall, April