hile most people would have found home schooling three teenagers enough of a challenge during the COVID lockdowns, journalist and author Siobhan O’Brien felt the need to stretch herself just a little bit further. First, she and her husband, accomplished -wine writer, chef and accommodation manager Greg Duncan Powell, took up online yoga in one of the empty guest cottages he was managing at Bawley Point on the NSW South Coast. Then Siobhan decided it was time to learn to sing, so found a teacher and embarked on a year’s lessons via Zoom. In 2021, she celebrated her newfound skills by forming blues and roots band Minnie and The Moonrakers and reinventing herself as the lead singer, with Greg on guitar along with a drummer and double bass player. What began as a passion project has taken off and Siobhan, her
