Alison is currently working with Isabel Ní Chuireáin. A multi-instrumentalist and tunesmith, Isabel was born and raised in the Gaeltacht area of An Fálcarrach in Donegal, Isabel is a familiar figure at Dublin’s traditional gigs and sessions.

Together with Thom Moore, Joe Dunne and George Staines she is a member of IAD, the Thursday night band resident at The Radisson Hotel. She also works with jazz and French café music singer, actress and former beauty queen Derby Browne.

In the past she has worked with Major to Minor, Celtic Fusion, Eimear Quinn and Michele Ann Kelly. She plays keyboards, guitar, whistle and accordion with an agricultural twist.

Alison and Isabel met in the summer of 2002 and forged a friendship and musical partnership that is bearing fruit in 2006 with the release on Osmosys Records of their first album, Mise agus Ise (myself and herself). Together the pair have written, arranged and produced this personal body of work, with the help of musician friends, near and far, and their engineer and co-producer Al Cowan. London-based photographer and friend Ken Garland captured them on film during a flying visit to Dublin.

The songs are a collection covering seminal events in Alison’s life from her childhood to the many formative years spent outside Ireland, and her eventual return to her homeland in 2001. Isabel’s tunes are similarly autobiographical, including two dedicated to her parents.

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