Melissa Hyman is a musician, songwriter and educator, born to a musical family and raised in the NYC area. She's been living in Asheville since 2007, and began working full-time as a touring musician in 2009. Her primary instruments are cello and voice. 

 Melissa's longtime musical projects include The Moon and You, an expandable-collapsable band with herself and husband Ryan Furstenberg at its core; Cowboy Judy, a country/Motown supergroup with Dulci Ellenberger, Amanda Anne Platt and Amber Sankaran; and The Heartbeat Sessions, a collaboration between local arts-in-healthcare nonprofit Arts For Life and Echo Mountain Recording Studios. 

 Melissa recently joined one of her all-time favorite bands, Tina and Her Pony, on electric bass. She has been teaching music and art lessons to pediatric patients and their families at Mission Hospital for Arts For Life since 2011, and began teaching rock band at French Broad River Academy in late 2020. She has been the Children's Program Coordinator at Warren Wilson College's Swannanoa Gathering since 2012, directing a 3-week day camp for children aged 5 to 18. Melissa also teaches private lessons on ukulele, guitar, cello, songwriting and music theory basics. She lives in West Asheville with her husband and two dogs.

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