Rising Music Festival
Meet the Team
The Rising Music Festival wouldn't be possible without our fantastic team of specialists.

Artist Development Director- Backbeat Collective
Aly Duff
Aly Duff is a Live Performance Specialist with over three decades of experience in the music and entertainment industry. Her expertise spans various facets of this dynamic field, making her a versatile professional with a deep understanding of what it takes to excel in the industry.

Creative Festival Director/Marketing Assistant
Amy Wheeler
Amy is 21 and is passionate about music. She is singer and bassist in her band White Noise Machine and also gigs on her own. She is marketing assistant at The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre and helps to organise and run countless local events for original musicians. She hopes to help her fellow young musicians to flourish.

Creative Venue Technician
Louis Anderson
Louis is the creative venue technician at the Phoenix. He is excited to transform the theatre into a buzzing festival this Summer! His role is to tech the stages, and assist performers of the festival throughout. He enjoys expressing his creative ideas to the team, and wants to bring his all to the festival. As a young drummer in his band White Noise Machine.

Marketing Manager
Sally McIlhone
Sally has been performing since she was a kid, acting in A Voyage Around My Father by John Mortimer at the age of 10 and going on to write her own plays in her early 20s. Following in the footsteps of her Irish singer auntie, Ann Breen, Sally sang in melodic punk bands in her teens and now has two young children who she is educating in the ways of good music.