Sally Jaquet is a freelance community musician

She specialises in music-making with children, young people, and vulnerable groups. Her passion and work centers around the belief that music and the arts have the power to improve wellbeing, build strong communities, and shape socially inclusive and thriving societies.

Sally grew up in Leith, Edinburgh, surrounded by musical friends and family and learning 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

She has worked internationally, most recently in Rajasthan and West Bengal, creating and facilitating children's music workshops for 6 months, as well as producing a musical performance exploring the relationship between the folk arts of West Bengal and Scotland - Robi & Rabbie.

Currently, Sally works for Love Music, Singing4Fun (Parkinsons UK), Crisis Homeless Charity, Earth in Common - as well as offering private singing lessons

As well as the above, Sally works in project management & evaluation: creating, running, and supporting on music projects, liaising with partners, applying for funds - working to develop arts-based charities on administration, management and office-based roles. In the past, this has included roles with Music in Detention, SOAS World Music Summer School, Fischy Music, Mita Pujara Evaluation, PAN Arts, and MARSM.

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