W.O. Smith School

    The W.O. Smith School, founded in 1984, is dedicated to providing music instruction to children of low-income Nashville families.

    The school is named for William Oscar Smith, a professor at Tennessee State University and a member of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

    Until 2008, the school was housed in two buildings in the 1400 block of Edgehill Avenue, south of downtown. But with the beginning of the 2008-09 school year, the school planned to move to a facility housed in the old Acuff Tire Co. building at the corner of Eighth and Edgehill avenues.

    The W.O. Smith school educates children ages 7-18 and makes lessons available for 50 cents each.

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