Lah-Lah's Big Live Band
Lah-Lah's Big Live Band
Genre	Live Action, Preschool, Music
Created by	Tina and Mark Harris
Directed by	Deb Ryan
Starring	Tina Harris, Mark Harris, Matt Ottignon, Jess Ciampa, Gary Daley
Composer(s)	Tina & Mark Harris
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer(s)	Tina and Mark Harris
Producer(s)	Mick Jones
Editor(s)	Mick Jones and Linda Ung
Location(s)	Sydney
Cinematography	David Wakeley
Running time	12 x 2 minutes
Production company(s)	Lah-Lah Productions/LitUp Digital
Broadcast
Original channel	Nick Jr. Australia
Original run	September 13, 2009 – present
External links
Official website
Production website

Lah-Lah is a five member children's music group from Sydney, Australia. Comprising members currently and fomerly from gypsy band Monsieur Camembert amongst other prominent Australian groups such as Dog Trumpet, Guy Sebastian, James Morrison Sextet, Lah-Lah has recorded and filmed and also performs live music ranging in styles from surf-rock and jazz to gypsy. Lah-Lah's repertoire is primarily composed by Mark Harris and Tina Harris as well as writing collaborations with Lilian Harris, Ben Ely of band Regurgitator, Anouk Ely and Kate Johnson.

Contents 1 Live 2 Audio 3 Video/TV 4 Group Members 5 Reviews 6 Discography 7 Notes 8 External links

[edit] 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 childrens' 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 will open the entertainment on the main stage of The Domain, Sydney for celebrations on Australia Day^[1] 2010 and will also be featured at the St Kilda Festival in February^[2].

The Sydney Opera House will then host Lah-Lah as part of it's Babies Proms season in May 2010.^[3]

[edit] Audio

Lah-Lah recorded its debut album Shake It Like This in October 2008 at Sydney's Megaphon Studios. The album is currently independent.

[edit] Video/TV

In July 2009 Lah-Lah went into 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 September 13 2009.^[4]

[edit] Group Members

Tina Harris as Lah-Lah (vocals)
Mark Harris as Band Leader (double bass/vocals)
Jess Ciampa as Tom Tom (drums/percussion/backing vocals)
Matt Ottignon as Mr Saxophone (tenor and soprano saxophones/clarinet/flute)
Gary Daley as Squeezy Sneezy (piano accordion/keyboards)

[edit] Reviews

Live Show Review - Arts Rocket. October 8, 2009^[5]

[edit] Discography

Shake It Like This (2008) - Audio CD
Lah-Lah's Big Live Band (2009) - DVD

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Lah-Lah site
• Lah-Lah page on Nick Jr Australia site