Buncrana native, Annette McNelis, is a passionate creative music educator, composer, musician and keyboard tutor.

A dedicated environmentalist, Annette uses music to help raise awareness about the importance of nature and our role in protecting biodiversity.

Annette has spent the past 20 years creating educational resources for primary schools, including Environment the Musical , Biodiversity and Living on an Island  The Environment the Musical classroom resource pack was featured on RTE's Nationwide and includes the Dog Pooh song, which has already been used by county councils across Ireland.

Annette has worked as an electronic keyboard tutor for the Donegal ETB's Music Education Partnership.

She is a TAP+ trained creative practitioner and has co-facilitated the TAP+ training programme for teachers and artists through the Donegal Education Support Centre.

She has worked as a BLAST Artist in Residence in several Donegal Schools

Annette was a contributor to the open access book, Sonic Histories of Occupation (Bloomsbury Publishing), launched in 2022.

As a volunteer for her local Tidy Towns Initiative, Annette delivers remote music workshops for local primary schools.

Annette wrote Learning for Life, the winning song in a 2005 competition to find a theme tune to mark the centenary of the Donegal ETB (then VEC).

The Long Shore and Inishowen are the titles of Annette's two albums of original instrumental music.