Alison is a musician, composer and producer with over 45 years experience. Her extensive work includes performing internationally as featured solo violinist for two years with Irish dance spectacular “Spirit of the Dance” to sell out arenas in America, Europe and Australia.  Previously with cult all-girl band, The Well Oiled Sisters, whose popular schedule included ITV’s The Warehouse Channel 4 ‘Out’, BBC Radio 2, Johnnie Walker Show, BBC4 Loose Ends; touring with Morrissey on his “Your Arsenal” tour; performed at major venues in London, including The Marquee, Hackney Empire, Cafe de Paris, Borderline, Mean Fiddler, The Power House, Astoria, Kensington Palace, appearing on same bill as Van Morrison, Suzanne Vega, Boyzone, Steve Harley, Siouxie &amp the Banshees, Hazel O’Connor, to name a few. UK & international festivals include Celtic Connections, WOMAD (UK, Europe, Austraia, New Zealand), Edinburgh Festival, Pride, Australia (Mardi Gras, Sydney, Melbourne Myer Music Bowl & WOMADelaide, Adelaide Festival Hall), many Human Rights, AIDS & Women’s fundraising events. WOS made 2 acclaimed albums, the 1st, “Alcohol and Tears”, got to Number 2 in HMV country charts; ‘You Got My Heart’ available on Apple Music. WOS have to date received over 1 million Youtube hits.

Alison was inspired to write her large-scale, outdoor spectacular “WILDFIRE!” after performing in Australia and America and realising how vital Scottish and Irish ancestry is to the ‘New World’ population. She lived in Spain for three years to write the music and book for “WILDFIRE!” and returned to the Scottish Borders, where she grew up, to record the music. “WILDFIRE!” premiered at Homecoming Scotland in 2009, supported by the Scottish Arts Council and toured a concert version called “Resonance’ in 2018 around the South West of England, supported by Arts Council England. The music has had over 63,000 hits

Alison was short listed as Composer-in- Residence for BBC Radio Play Bursary Award 2007, when she also founded her own performing arts company Shapeshifter Productions Ltd, gaining charitable status in 2011, which has since received many funding awards including Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Comic Relief and Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation. Their work includes creating the popular National Lottery finalist participatory singing project for the elderly called “The Smiling Sessions” and “Strung Out” violin group for adults, which was awarded grants from The BBC Performing Arts Community Fund and Arts Council England in support of a new commission called “Express Symphony”, composed by Alison, which was performed at six festivals across East London in the summer of 2013. She has also written complex arrangements for Walthamstow Acoustic Massive since 2012.

In 2018, re-visited her artistic career as musician and composer. Resonance was a concert performance of original work, “Wildfire!” composed by Alison, launched as a pilot tour in the South West in June 2018. The band, The Well Oiled Sisters, performed 4 concerts to celebrate 20 years on at Rhythm Tree Festival, Isle of Wight; 100 Club, London; Trades Club, Hebden Bridge and WOMAD UK.

Alison moved to Folkestone in 2019 which is now the world’s first music town, where she has met many wonderful musicians. A new project is about to be launched during their Music in May festival called, “Wild Women”.

A Fellow of the RSA, Alison has a wealth of experience in arts management and producing. She was nominated “Citizen of the Year” in Love Your Borough, Waltham Forest, 2014T; the charity was voted one of the top 100 organisations in the borough in 2016; She was delighted to be acknowledged as a Cultural Star for the London Borough of Culture Waltham Forest 2019 for her contributions to community engagement in the arts. Alison now lives in Sandgate and is loving the creative, musical vibe by the sea! .