Delta Blues, Gospel, Slide Guitar
“I thought I was back in the Mississippi Delta”–fan @ a recent concert
“She plays a mean slide with a sweet spirit.”–fan @ a recent concertfont
Robin O’Herin is a touring blues and gospel musician, specializing in historically rich, often interactive concerts that include original and traditional American music. Robin plays festivals, coffeehouses, & house concerts. 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.
She has had Her arrangement of “Old Country Rock” and her original “Everhopeful” were used in the soundtrack for the PBS “2005 Roadtrip Nations” Series (episode 4). She is focusing on learning, writing and collaborating more and more for sync licensing and hopes to expand her catalog and start actively pitching to music supervisors and libraries in 2024. She is available for booking concerts, private parties, festivals, coffeehouses and farmer’s markets and Blues in the Schools presentations.
Robin was a finalist in the 2023Capital region Blues Network Challenge, the 2013 Memphis Blues Challenge. She played in the Tropea Blues Festival in Trope Italy in September ’06. 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. 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.
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