Lah-Lah is a five-member children's music group from Sydney, Australia. Lah-Lah has both recorded albums and filmed television content, and also performs at live events. The music of ''Lah-Lah'' ranges in styles from world music and surf-rock to jazz and gypsy. Lah-Lah's repertoire is primarily composed by

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and Tina Harris. Lah-Lah aims to introduce music and musical instruments to children and their families through fun and entertainment.

Live

''Lah-Lah'' performed at the Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Seymour Centre and

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Town Hall in January 2009 for its inaugural season. In October 2009 Century Venues children's entertainment arm Century's Child produced ''Lah-Lah'' into the

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for a two-week run of proms style concerts for kids. ''Lah-Lah'' opened the entertainment on the main stage of

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for celebrations on

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2010 and was also featured at the St Kilda Festival in February. The

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hosted ''Lah-Lah'' for 24 sold-out shows as part of its Babies Proms season in May 2010. In October 2010 ''Lah-Lah'' presented a short season of 'Lah-Lah's Adventures' at the Cantebury-Hurlstone Park RSL, Mounties club and Harbord Diggers club. In November 2010 ''Lah-Lah'' was a featured act at the Splash Festival at the Aquatic Centre at Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush. The Sydney Festival 2011 presented the second ''Lah-Lah'' live production, 'Lah-Lah's Musical Wonderland' throughout the festival with shows at the Festival First Night in Hyde Park, The Famous Spiegeltent in Hyde Park, and The Riverside Theatre in Parramatta. Following the May 2010 Babies Proms season, the

commissioned a new show concept from ''Lah-Lah'' in the 30th anniversary year of the Babies Proms. The commission was for the inaugural presentation in a new series - the Family Proms - aimed at offering wonderful musical experiences to all primary aged children. The show, 'Lah-Lah's BIG Live Band', featuring an 11 piece big band (trumpets: Simon Sweeney, Dane Laboyrie, Ray Cassar,

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, trombones: Lucian McGuiness, Alex Silver, Justin Kearin, saxophones: Andrew 'Jock' Robertson, David Theak, Richard 'Woody the Woodwind' Maegraith, Stephan Schafer), twenty child violinists as well as twenty child singer/dancers in addition to the core Lah-Lah quintet, presented 5 concerts in the

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was the second interstate live show for ''Lah-Lah'' in July 2011. In September 2011 ''Lah-Lah'' performed two shows at the opening of Darling Quarter in Darling Harbour, New South Wales. The City of Sydney council included ''Lah-Lah'' in the program for the lighting of the Christmas Tree concert in

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in November 2011. ''Lah-Lah'' was also scheduled to perform at the Village Christmas concerts in Rushcutters Bay and Rosebery, however the shows were postponed due to poor weather. ''Lah-Lah'' subsequently performed at the Martin Place concert in November 2012 and has appeared at various Village Christmas Concerts each year. December 2011 saw ''Lah-Lah'' continue to expand nationally with their first

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concerts with performances at the Worlds Festival in Fremantle as part of the

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. The

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programmed ''Lah-Lah'' for a show in the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall as part of the Music Play children's music festival in January 2012. ''Lah-Lah'' continue to tour nationally with concerts in

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at the Between the Bays festival in Mornington Peninsula, in

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as part of the Something on Saturday series at the

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, the Kids Day Out festival in

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, the

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Angel Place, Newcastle Museum, Floriade Nightfest in

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, Glebe Street Fair,

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, World's Biggest Playgroup, Roola Boola festival in

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, and the Dress Up Attack festival in

amongst others.

Audio

''Lah-Lah'' recorded its debut album Shake It Like This in November 2008 at Sydney's Megaphon Studios. ''Lah-Lah'' recorded its second album Making Music Lah-Lah's Way in 2011 at Sydney's Megaphon Studios. ''Lah-Lah'' recorded its third album Sing It Loud! in 2014 at Sydney's Trackdown Digital. ''Lah-Lah'' albums are currently independently released and available exclusively from their official website. Shake It Like This is also available digitally from the Australian iTunes Store. On 30 October 2015 an announcement was made by the band that ''Lah-Lah'' had been signed by Sony Music and the Lah-Lah's Adventures Sound Track album would be available from 6 November 2015.

Video/TV

In July 2009 ''Lah-Lah'' went to Down Under studios, Sydney with production company LitUp Digital to film 12 music video clips from the Shake It Like This album. Other elements were shot in addition to the clips and together they will form the ''Lah-Lah'' debut music DVD

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. Also in July, ''Lah-Lah'' signed a broadcast agreement with

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for the video clips. The ''Lah-Lah'' clips went on air daily on

's preschool channel Nick Jr. Australia on 13 September 2009. The clips stopped airing on Nick Jr. Australia at the end of 2014. In February 2010 the clips were licensed to

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and also Nickelodeon New Zealand and began airing during March 2010. In April 2013 ''Lah-Lah'' went into production on series 1 of a television program entitled Lah-Lah's Adventures, producing 26 x 12-minute episodes of a live action and animation preschool music show. The show was broadcast in April 2014 on the

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's 7Two on free to air television in Australia, and began a rolling broadcast in September 2014 on

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in Australia and New Zealand, and BBC Kids and

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in Canada. ABC TV acquired the broadcast rights to Lah-Lah's Adventures season 1 at the end of 2014 and it commenced a rolling broadcast on

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and

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from 4 January 2015. The series is an Australian-Canadian official co-production produced by Stella Projects in Australia and

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in Canada. Another series starring ''Lah-Lah'' was introduced titled Lah-Lahs Stripy Sock Club which aired on ABC Kids in 2019 producing 18 x 7-minute episodes.

Group Members

Nic Cecire as Tom Tom (drums/percussion/backing vocals)
Gary Daley as Squeezy Sneezy (piano accordion/keyboards)
Tina Harris as ''Lah-Lah'' (vocals)
Mark Harris as Buzz The Band Leader and Lola Double Bass (double bass/vocals)
Matt Ottignon as Mr Saxophone (tenor and soprano saxophones/clarinet/flute)

Reviews

Live Show Review - Sydney Festival 2011 - Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2011
Live Show Review - Enmore Theatre 2009 - Arts Rocket. 8 October 2009

Discography

* Shake It Like This (2008) - Audio CD *

(2009) - DVD * Making Music Lah-Lah's Way (2011) - Audio CD * Lah-Lah's Adventures - Brand New Day (2014) - DVD * Sing It Loud! (2014) - Audio CD * Having Fun! (2017) - Audio CD * 10th Birthday Party (2018) - Audio CD

Notes

External links

*
Lah-Lah's Adventures page
on ABC Kids
Lah-Lah's Adventures page on CBeebies Australia
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