Sally is a freelance community musician and performer. Her passion and work center around the belief that music and the arts have the power to improve wellbeing, build strong communities, and shape socially inclusive and thriving societies.

She specialises in music-making with children, young people, and vulnerable groups, as well as providing backing vocals for a variety of musical groups. Sally grew up in Leith, Edinburgh, surrounded by musical friends and family, where she learned how music brings people together. After living in various countries around the world, she moved to London, where she received a First in her Music in Development Masters at SOAS.

Currently, Sally lives back in Edinburgh and works for Love Music, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Phoenix Choir, SJCS, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Hear Me Out, as well as offering private singing lessons and running her own music projects (see Current Projects).

In the past, she has worked for Oxfam, Music in Detention, SOAS World Music Summer School, Singing4Fun (Parkinson’s UK), Fischy Music, Mita Pujara Evaluation, Creative Futures, PAN Arts, Crisis Homeless Charity, Earth in Common, Hartbeeps, and MARSM.

Sally also creates and facilitates her own music workshops around community wellbeing, protest music, and songwriting. These have been successfully received around the world, including at the RRAP Hub (Rajasthan), Tagore Ashram (West Bengal), Goldsmiths University, AWOMENfest, and CARAS Refugee Centre (London).

In addition to her community music projects, she is a performing vocalist and backing singer, performing backing vocals for artists such as Rory Butler, Brownbear, Niki King, Kat Brooks, and Ewan Macintyre. She also has her own music projects with Midi Paul, PALLY, and Choral Stimulation.