Founder of Nashville School of Traditional Country Music, Meredith Watson 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 the 2017 film "The Dinner", and will appear on its upcoming soundtrack.

Phoebe has been touring the world for 15 years playing with various bands, including The Belleville Outfit, Ben Sollee, Shakey Graves, and her own project, Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers. Her band members call her the "child whisperer", and recently, while on tour, Phoebe met Irena Eide, founder of Little Folkies.

This meeting was very cosmic, and Irena asked Phoebe to help produce the re-releases of the seasonal Little Folkies Music Collection. The two got to work and the new songs are almost ready to enter the world. Meanwhile, Phoebe decided to start a Little Folkies Nashville "Chapter" to continue growing the vibrant and meaningful program.

"I feel like the music of Little Folkies is an incredible collection of music for young ones. Irena wrote these songs as she was raising her own son, and they bring to life the classic folk sound of Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie. Children and Parents alike get the songs stuck in their heads, and they add a refreshing addition to the standards we have all grown up with."

Here in Nashville, Phoebe has also partnered Little Folkies with The Nashville School of Traditional Country Music to expand the reach of the program, and to create a foundational anchor for the school.

Quality curriculum is essential for a music program to last, and Little Folkies has now been alive for over a decade. Thousands of families have been impacted by these songs, and Phoebe is excited to bring them to the Nashville area.