Robin O'Herin is a Berkshires -based, acoustic blues and gospel musician with a hint of Appalachian mountain music. She plays bottleneck and fingerstyle guitar and mountain dulcimer.

Robin was a finalist in the 2006 Memphis Blues Challenge. She played in the Tropea Blues Festival in Trope Italy in September '05. She was the headlining act in the Resophonic Blues Festival in Pilzen, CZ. in'05. She opened for the Doobie Brothers in Pittsfield, MA. and for Vance Gilbert and Michael Powers in Sept 04. Her arrangement of "Old Country Rock" has been used in the soundtrack for the PBS "2005 Roadshow Nations" Series (episode 4).

She has served as song leader in several churches and led a traditional gospel choir.

Robin has performed Appalachian gospel, blues and original music throughout New England in churches, coffee houses and festivals. She has been a song leader in several churches and formed a gospel choir which performed traditional gospel music.

Growing up in the Sixties, she was probably the only kid in her neighborhood listening to such legendary blues artists as Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Blind Willie Johnson and Lightning Hopkins, among others. Her father still has boxes of his old 78s stored in his garage (someday they�ll be hers). Her mother liked folk music, especially Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, but she liked them all�blues, folk and gospel.

She says, "I wore out my mother�s Odetta records. My choices in music covered a wide spectrum. Leo Kottke and John Renbourne were my heroes. I found myself listening to and learning from a diversified group of musicians: everything from Phil Okes to the Staple Singers, Emmy Lou Harris to Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt and Rory Block to Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell. I learned to sing by making up harmonies and singing along with the albums. I especially loved the raw power and emotion of bottleneck blues. In August of 2001, I fulfilled a dream and spent a week at Blues Guitar Camp in California (International Guitar Seminars), with guitar greats Bob Brozman, Woody Mann and John Renbourne, to name just a few of the awesome guitarists who were there. We studied all day and jammed all night. It�s never too late to go to camp."

Robin O'Herin