Kristina Murray

Administrative Director + Songwriter + Singer + BAND LEAder + guitar player

Kristina Murray was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. While always a lover of country music from a young age, in high school she discovered acoustic guitar, bluegrass and gospel singin’ and pickin’ in the blue ridge hills of the North Georgia mountains; she quickly fell in love with traditional/roots music and harmony singing. After a short stint in Colorado playing music in jam circles and honky tonks, Kristina moved to Nashville in 2014 to cultivate her deep love of songwriting and to pursue a career as a country music artist. She has independently released two full length records and an EP, while touring extensively in the US and Scandinavia.

Prior to her current role as the Administrative Director for the The Nashville Country School, she worked for over seven years as the External Relations Program Assistant for the Massey College of Business at Belmont University. Having taught both songwriting and guitar to children and adults alike, she also helps teach Ukulele Sprouts classes and other adult classes within the Nashville Country School. You can also see her performing in clubs and honky tonks around Nashville. Her very favorite thing in the world is singing!

Meredith Watson

Founder + Songwriter + Singer + fiddler + guitar player

Meredith was born in Boston, Massachusetts where, at the age of  three, she began studying classical dance at the Boston Ballet School.  Through her years of dance performance, she developed a love of  the performing arts in general, and sought out an education in theater and music.  She was featured in countless productions at the Wheelock Family Theater in Boston, and, as a teenager, she taught classes in acting, movement and choreography at the Harwich Junior Theater in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  She was selected to attend the prestigious National High School Institute at Northwestern University, where she studied Theater Arts, and subsequently received her BFA in Acting and Music from the Tisch School of  the Performing Arts at New York University.  While attending NYU, she met acclaimed Bel Canto vocal coach Jeff  Halpern, with whom she studied privately for seven years. She has performed in, and played music for, many productions with the award-winning off-broadway theater company *Collaboration Town*. In 2009, she was selected as a finalist in the Telluride Acoustic Blues competition at the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival, and quickly garnered the attention of  modern acoustic blues luminaries Chris Smither and Jorma Kaukonen.  She has taught guitar techniques, song arranging, and vocal harmony both privately and in workshops throughout the country, and spent three years teaching fiddle at the Junior Appalachian Musicians Program in Black Mountain, NC. Since 2012 she has released two records and extensively toured the US, UK and Ireland with her band Locust Honey. Her original song "Blue" was featured in and on the soundtrack of the 2017 film *The Dinner*.