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{{For|the Dutch-Moroccan politician|Esmah Lahlah}}
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{{Infobox television
| alt_name             = Lah-Lah's Big Live Band
| image                = LahLahsBigLiveBand.jpg
| caption              =
| genre                = Children's, live action
| creator              = [[Mark Harris (jazz musician)|Mark]] and Tina Harris
| developer            =
| writer               =
| director             = Deb Ryan
| creative_director    =
| presenter            =
| starring             = Nic Cecire<br />Gary Daley<br />Tina Harris<br />Mark Harris<br />Matt Ottignon
| judges               =
| voices               =
| narrated             =
| theme_music_composer =
| opentheme            =
| endtheme             =
| composer             = [[Mark Harris (jazz musician)|Mark]] and Tina Harris
| country              = [[Australia]]
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 1
| num_episodes         = 12
| list_episodes        =
| executive_producer   = Tina and Mark Harris
| producer             = Mick Jones
| editor               = Mick Jones and Linda Ung
| location             = Sydney
| cinematography       = David Wakeley
| camera               =
| runtime              = 12&nbsp;×&nbsp;2 minutes
| company              = Lah-Lah Productions/LitUp Digital
| network              = [[Nick Jr. Australia]]
| first_aired          = {{start date|2009|9|13|df=y}}
| last_aired           =
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'''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 [[Mark Harris (jazz musician)|Mark]] 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 [[Parramatta]] 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 [[Enmore Theatre]] for a two-week run of proms style concerts for kids.
''Lah-Lah'' opened the entertainment on the main stage of [[The Domain, Sydney]] for celebrations on [[Australia Day]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.symphonyofaustralia.com/events.php |title=Archived copy |website=www.symphonyofaustralia.com |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001182951/http://www.symphonyofaustralia.com/events.php |archive-date=1 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 2010 and was also featured at the St Kilda Festival in February.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stkildafestival.com.au/ |title=St Kilda Festival |publisher=St Kilda Festival |date= |accessdate=2023-01-27}}</ref>
The [[Sydney Opera House]] hosted ''Lah-Lah'' for 24 sold-out shows as part of its Babies Proms season in May 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/kath_lah_lahs_adventures_2010.aspx | title=What's on }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/Family/Lah-Lahs-Musical-Wonderland-Spiegeltent/ | title=Sydney Festival: 6-30 January 2022 }}</ref>
Following the May 2010 Babies Proms season, the [[Sydney Opera House]] 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, [[Elizabeth Geyer]], 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 [[Sydney Opera House]] Concert Hall for the House:Ed and Kids at the House Programs from 24–26 June 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/kath_lah_lahs_big_live_band.aspx | title=What's on }}</ref>
The Powerkidz festival at the [[Brisbane Powerhouse]] 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 [[Martin Place, Sydney]] 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 [[Western Australian]] concerts with performances at the Worlds Festival in Fremantle as part of the [[ISAF Sailing World Championships]].
The [[Melbourne Recital Centre]] 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 [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] at the Between the Bays festival in Mornington Peninsula, in [[South Australia]] as part of the Something on Saturday series at the [[Adelaide Festival Centre]], the Kids Day Out festival in [[Sydney]], the [[City Recital Hall]] Angel Place, Newcastle Museum, Floriade Nightfest in [[Canberra]], Glebe Street Fair, [[Sydney Festival]], World's Biggest Playgroup, Roola Boola festival in [[Melbourne]], and the Dress Up Attack festival in [[Sydney]] 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 [[Lah-Lah's Big Live Band]].
Also in July, ''Lah-Lah'' signed a broadcast agreement with [[Nickelodeon Australia]] for the video clips. The ''Lah-Lah'' clips went on air daily on [[Nickelodeon Australia]]'s preschool channel [[Nick Jr. Australia]] on 13 September 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nickjr.com.au/shows.php?sh=46 |title=Nick Jr Lah-Lah |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-date=19 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219030003/http://www.nickjr.com.au/shows.php?sh=46 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The clips stopped airing on [[Nick Jr. Australia]] at the end of 2014.
In February 2010 the clips were licensed to [[Nickelodeon Southeast Asia]] 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 [[Seven Network]]'s [[7Two]] on free to air television in Australia, and began a rolling broadcast in September 2014 on [[CBeebies]] on [[Foxtel]]/[[Austar]] in Australia and New Zealand, and [[BBC Kids]] and [[Knowledge Network]] 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 [[ABC Kids (Australia)]] and [[ABC iView]] from 4 January 2015.
The series is an Australian-Canadian official co-production produced by Stella Projects in Australia and [[Bardel Entertainment]] 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)<br />Gary Daley as Squeezy Sneezy (piano accordion/keyboards)<br />Tina Harris as ''Lah-Lah'' (vocals)<br />[[Mark Harris (jazz musician)|Mark Harris]] as Buzz The Band Leader and Lola Double Bass (double bass/vocals)<br />Matt Ottignon as Mr Saxophone (tenor and soprano saxophones/clarinet/flute)
==Reviews==
Live Show Review - Sydney Festival 2011 - Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2011<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/archive/specials/review-lah-lahs-musical-wonderland-at-sydney-festival-2011/news-story/d7db68f205eca863593b649762b49ba2 | title=Review: Lah-Lah's Musical Wonderland at Sydney Festival 2011 | date=17 January 2011 | first=Grant | last=Jones | newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| location=Australia | accessdate=14 December 2018 }}</ref><br />
Live Show Review - Enmore Theatre 2009 - Arts Rocket. 8 October 2009<ref>{{cite web | url=http://artsrocket.blogspot.com/2009/10/lah-lahs-big-live-band-review.html | title=Arts Rocket &#124; Discovering & exploring Arts in Sydney and beyond with kids.: Lah-Lah's Big Live Band - Review | date=8 October 2009 }}</ref>
==Discography==
* [[Shake It Like This]] (2008) - Audio CD
* [[Lah-Lah's Big Live Band]] (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
==Awards and nominations==
===ARIA Music Awards===
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] is an annual ceremony presented by [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the [[music of Australia]]. They commenced in 1987.
{{Awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2017|2017]]
| Having Fun!
|rowspan="2" | [[ARIA Award for Best Children's Album|Best Children's Album]]
| {{Nom}}
|
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 2018|2018]]
| 10th Birthday Party
| {{nom}}
|
|}
==Notes==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|www.lah-lah.com}}
* [http://www.abc.net.au/abcforkids/shows/s4146222.htm Lah-Lah's Adventures page] on [[ABC Kids (Australia)|ABC Kids]]
* [http://www.cbeebies.com/australia/lahlah Lah-Lah's Adventures page on CBeebies Australia]
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