About Sally Currie

Sally Currie is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in Hull, in the northeast of England. She is also the CEO of Drake Music, a national UK charity working at the intersection of Music, Disability and Technology. She has a professional background in the arts and music sector as an accountant, arts administrator and producer.

Sally Currie is partially deaf and has an extensive history writing and performing original music with bands and solo. In 2019 she formed a band to output The Dyr Sister's "Fairy-tales for the Modern Gentleman", a collection of anti-ballads chronicling the banality of modern existence.

Combining contemporary folk with post-hiphop and electronic music the Dyr Sisters songs are delivered with driving beats via a backdrop of strings including Viola/Guitar, Harp and Bass Guitar and layered with haunting and ethereal vocal harmonies.

Shortly after forming the band Sally was awarded a Drake Music emergent commission. She composed a song which was set to moving image. This was a collaboration with the artist and animator, Anna Bean. The band (consisting of Sally Currie, Sarah Shiels and Stephanie Halsey) played 3 shows before the pandemic hit.

In 2021 Sally was awarded Sound and Musics Composer Curator and did another, larger scale production with Anna. This was an immersive theatrical iteration of The Dyr Sister entitled 'Fairytales for the Modern Gentleman' Anna worked with Immersive Projection Mapper, Ed Grimoldby and theater practitioners Michelle Dee and Caroline Ullyart to create a life size diorama, centered around the bands music. We did 8 shows in a pop up gallery space down Humber Street in Hull in October 2021. This was in partnership with Back to Ours and with the support of Hull Jazz Festival Kickstarter fund.

In 2022 an album was recorded which was released in 2025 ^_^

"The Dyr Sister sounds like some wonderful collaboration between Thom Yorke and Shirley Collins." - Fred Perry Subculture