Robin O’Herin is a touring blues and gospel musician specializing in historically rich, often interactive concerts that include original and traditional American music. Her concerts are warm, affirming experiences she shares with the audience. Let her take you on a journey of musical exploration through the Delta and Piedmont regions of the South. Song selections may include Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson and Robin’s own original blues and fingerstyle ballads.
Robin’s arrangement of “Old Country Rock” and her original “Everhopeful” were used in the soundtrack for the PBS “2005 Roadtrip Nations” Series (Episode 4). She was a finalist in the 2023 Capital Region Blues Network Challenge and the 2013 Memphis Blues Challenge. She played in the Tropea Blues Festival in Trope Italy in September 2006, and was the headlining act in the Resophonic Blues Festival in Pilzen, CZ in 2005.. She opened for the Doobie Brothers in Pittsfield, MA and for Vance Gilbert and Michael Powers in September 2004. She was a Telluride Blues Finalist in 2009.
Robin has shared the stage with Paul Geremia, Andy Cohen and Roy Bookbinder. She is currently working on a new gospel CD and then hopes to jump right into a new blues and original CD. She teaches beginning Delta and Piedmont blues guitar and songwriting and partners with raisingtheblues.org and guitarsintheclassroom.org to bring the power of music into the classroom and hospitals to reach children and teachers in new and innovative ways.