Sally is a singer, choir leader, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Since 2001 she has been leading the Wing-It Singers in Hackney who sing a wide variety of polyphonic songs in many different languages (Georgian, Balkan, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, English) drawn predominantly from aural traditions but also from the written/scored page from the renaissance to the present day. They perform regularly both in and out of London and occasionally abroad.
She directed the Cecil Sharp House Choir for 11 years until 2019 which sang mostly her own harmony arrangements of songs from the British Isles and led to the publication of a song book of folk song arrangement, Lovers, Legends and Laments, which has sold widely both in the UK and abroad.
She leads workshops all over the country including running the Folk choir at the Dartington International Summer School for four years and at King’s Place during their Voices Unwrapped series. Her arrangements are sung by many choirs and smaller a capella groups
She continues to perform in the duo Bow & Bellows which she set up with Martina Schwarz in 2000 (see Best of Bow & Bellows on Bandcamp)
Also with her a capella trio, Davies & Daughters.
Sally is part of ‘Music Declares Emergency’ and combines her musical life with climate activism when she can, to bring focus to the environmental crisis the world is facing and the need to act now.
With a professional background in theatre as a versatile performer, (actor, acrobat, instrumentalist and composer), Sally has undertaken numerous music projects for dance and theatre companies and her compositions have been performed in a wide variety of venues including Sadlers Wells, the Purcell Rooms, the New British Library and festivals in Edinburgh, Chard, Berlin and Tbilisi.
She originally trained in the theatre department at Dartington College in Devon, later doing a Masters degree in Composition and Ethnomusicology at Kingston University.