Alison Mackay has played violone and double bass with Tafelmusik since 1979. She is active in the planning of educational projects for the orchestra and her children's tale Baroque Adventure: The Quest for Arundo Donax, released on the Analekta label, was awarded the Juno Award for 2006 Children's Recording of the Year.  In the spring of 2005 she was co-director (along with her husband, David Fallis), of the Metamorphosis Festival, a Toronto-wide festival of music, art, dance, film and theatre inspired by the stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Her concert on this theme featuring Tafelmusik with Canadian actor R.H. Thomson  will tour in several cities in the United States this season. Her multi-cultural creation "The Four Seasons, a Cycle of the Sun"  has been made into a feature documentary by Toronto's Media Headquarters and a concert version of this project will tour in Asia this autumn. This spring she will be active in organizing a special project for the orchestra called "Sacred Spaces, Sacred Circles", a celebration of architecture and the arts in the varied worship spaces of many cultures in the city of Toronto.