User:DavidBailey/Kristyn Harris

Kristyn Harris is a American Western Music singer, songwriter, and swing rhythm guitar player. Harris commonly performs music styles Cowboy Music and Western Swing.

Harris regularly performs in Western Music Shows and Cowboy Poetry Gatherings , and has been featured on television and radio. In 2017 she featured in the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival. She generally performs solo but has been a member of the Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band.

She has performed her music internationally, at the Equiblues Festival of Rodeo and Country Music in France in 2016.

In 2018 she was a contestant in American Idol, obtaining a Golden Ticket.

Harris was home schooled and then studied on-line via Collin College, both of which facilitated continuing her education after her early start as a performer from the age of 14.

Awards and Accolades

 * 2017 Western Music Association Entertainer of the Year
 * 2017 Pro Cowboy Country Artist Association Entertainer of the Year & Female Vocalist of the Year
 * 2017 Ameripolitan Music Awards - Western Swing Female
 * 2016 Western Music Association Entertainer of the Year
 * 2015 Western Music Association Western Album of the Year
 * 2015 Female Performer of the Year
 * 2014 Western Music Association Female Performer of the Year
 * 2014 Academy of Western Artists Female Performer of the Year
 * 2013 Cowboy Swing Album of the Year
 * 2012 Crescendo Award from the Western Music Association
 * 2012 WMA Female Yodeler of the Year

Media

 * Featured in Song of the Cowboy, directed by Herbert Krill on German Public Television

Discography

 * Solo
 * Down the Trail (2015)
 * Let Me Ride (O’Brien/Meador, 2013)
 * My Mustang, My Martin, and Me (2011)


 * With Brook Wallace
 * Twice The Fun (2015)


 * With Badger and the Belles
 * Badger and the Belles (self-titled) (2015)