Joanna Funk

music, gardening and my dog


RockSchool

  • Ed Walker, UK Rockschool examiner

    The Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) recently announced that they are offering the Rockschool syllabus, and that the first exams will be held in Australia, across the country in October and November 2015. Here is the post on their website. In 2009 I met UK Rockschool examiner Ed Walker, in Kota Kinabalu. He’s Scottish and… Continue reading

About Joanna

Joanna is British Australian. She worked mainly in financial news in London. In her forties she moved to her parents’ birthplace, Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, where she became a pianist in a hotel and wrote a blog about musicians. The blog became a book before Joanna came to Australia in 2012. In this blog she writes mostly about music, gardening, and trips to Sabah. Oh, and Wookie the Havanese.

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