Alice D. Freeman began her musical studies in Wisconsin on piano at the age of six. She started violin at nine and played first violin in a family string quartet for six years, as well as arranging music for a family ensemble including her siblings on violin, viola, and cello, her mother on piano and her father on soprano recorder. In high school Alice sang with a madrigal singers group and played in the orchestra. She worked as a musician at the Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont during college. As a guitar accompanist, she spent 10 years chording folk songs at hootenannies, folk fests, parties, and around campfires. Alice attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a four-year music scholarship and played violin and viola for five years with University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra while completing a bachelor's degree in Geology and French and graduate work in Education.

She has played viola with the Fox Valley Symphony in Wisconsin, the Wyoming Chamber Orchestra, the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and the Cheyenne Symphony. Alice began her harp studies at the University of Wyoming Music Department and has played harp with the University of Wyoming Symphony Orchestra since 1999. She performed with the harp ensemble at the 2007 and 2008 Beginning in the Middle harp conferences in Williamsburg, Virginia and has played for many weddings and receptions since 2000. Alice also plays hammered dulcimer and accompanied the musical 'Arabian Nights' at the OpenStage Theatre in Fort Collins in 2007. She plays with the Front Range Occasional (hammered dulcimer) Group, the Laramie Monday Night Folk Music Group and maintains a Web page of tunes for the Laramie group.

Alice continues to study the concert harp and hammered dulcimer with private teachers, and regularly attends pedal harp, folk harp, and hammered dulcimer workshops and conferences. She plays therapeutic music at bedside for three businesses in Laramie as an intern in the International Healing Musician's Program, anticipating full certification in July 2008. She is a member of the American Harp Society, the International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen, the Scottish Harp Society of America, the Colorado Celtic Harp Society, the Cimbalom World Association (hammered dulcimer), and the Clan Maxwell Society of the USA.