Suzanne: music and other talents

You've heard Suzanne's talk about EFS. Today I'm talking to her about her other life outside TAFE teaching. Well, not about everything, only about one aspect of her very interesting life: music.
Download the MP3 file 2.24 MB, o:o9:49)

Music by my brothers' group, Tresena





Answer the following questions:
1. What’s her background? What’s her family’s ancestry?
2. When did her father’s family first come to Australia?
3. What about her mother’s?
4. Where did she feel at home and why?
5. What’s her parent’s connection with music?
6. What type of music were they involved with?
7. How old was she when she started learning a musical instrument?
8. What instrument was it? Who taught her how to play it?
9. What was her second instrument? What type of songs did she sing?
10. Has she still got her first instrument? What happened to it?
11. What did she do at 15? Where?
12. What did she do in the late sixties?
13. What was the name of her band? (It’s in one of the photos-the newspaper clipping)
14. Did they become famous?
15. What does the newspaper clipping say?
16. What was there always in the background?
17. When did she start playing the mandolin?
18. How long did it take her to play in the Classical Ensemble?
19. When did she perform in the Opera House? What was the show?
20. What did she do at university?
21. What does she call “soirées”?
22. Which photos are from this period? Describe one of them.
23. Does she still play? What takes up all her time?
24. What is her involvement with music now?
25. How did she start modelling and where?
26. How did she get involved in it?
27. Did she have any training? Did she find it difficult or embarrassing?
28. Why does she say the modelling photos look a bit dated?
29. Did you grow up in a musical family? Do you play any instruments? Do you like music? What does it mean to you? Tell us about it in your blog.