2014 Partnered with The Music School Outreach Program with BcArc
2014 Caffe Lena
2014 Joe Davies Folk Festival
2014 WCUW 40 Year Member Appreciation Part
2013 Boston Blues Challenge Finalist
2013 The Driving Song played on NPR's Car Talk
2013 Guitar Jam V: Anniversary The Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA
2013 ACMA Listening Room, Fort Meyers, FL
2013 Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Tap & Blues with Stefanie Weber
2012 RockOn! Band Camp Songwriting Instructor, Pittsfield MA
2012 Caffe Lena Blues Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Partnered with Music In Common, Great Barrington, MA
2011-Present 21st Century Grant After-school Program—Beginning blues guitar & songwriting, Monument Mt. High School, Instrument Buildint at Monument Middle School,
Great Barrington, MA
2011 Guitar Jam III: Ladies Night Out @ The Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, MA
2011- Present Partnered with Guitarsintheclassroom.org
2010-Present Partnered with RaisingtheBlues.org
2011 Old Songs Sampler Concert, Altamont, NY
2010 FODFest @ The Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, MA
2010 WCUW Front Room Concert Series, Worcester, MA
2009 Telluride Acoustic Blues Challenge Finalist
2008 The Guthrie Center, Housatonic, MA
2007 Taunton River Folk Festival, Taunton, MA
2007 Plymouth Blues and Folk Festival
2007 Black Potatoe Festival, NJ
2007 Opened for Paul Geremia
2007 Opened for Davis Coen, Bridgeport, CT
2006 Opened for Roy Bookbinder, Little Rock, AR
2006 Tropea Blues Festival in Tropea, Italy
2006 Memphis Blues Challenge finalist
2005 Licensed two songs to PBS for the soundtrack of the 2005 Roadtrip Nation DVD series (episodes 4 & 5)
2005 Headline act for the WRA’s “Resophonic Blues Festival” in the Czech Republic
2004 Opened for the Doobie Brothers, Pittsfield, MA
2003 and 2005 Boston Blues Challenge Finalist
2003-Present Teach songwriting, blues and jugband music at RockOn Band Camp, Pittsfield, MA

Teaching and Outreach in The Community
EDUCATION
2006-2009 UMass Amherst. Bachelors Degree in Integrated Arts In Education
PROGRAMS
My field of study has enabled me to create a variety of Blues In The Schools Programs, as well as after-school programs and programs for people with
special needs.
Some of the programs I have written and performed in schools, libraries and community centers include: Rhythm & Roots (a program for young children exploring the roots of African rhythms); Blues and the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (for grades 4 and up); Blues, Songwriting and Poetry; and Tap & Blues (with Rhythm Tap Artist Stefanie Weber).
2010 I partnered with Raising The Blues and became their Western MA Director. The Mission of Raising the Blues is to bring music, instruments and instrument training to children who are sick, disabled and have special needs, in hospitals and schools. I have done hospital concerts, private lessons, and summer instrument building programs. Currently, I am teaching guitar at two schools, with four students for Raising The Blues, and am looking forward to doing my fifth summer of instrument building and music with the BRSD Special Needs Summer Program. We have built cigar box diddly bows, ukuleles and recycled instruments. See some of our work here: www.robinoherin.com/workshop-photos.html or email me for a youtube link.
2011 I partnered with Guitars In The Classroom. Their mission is to help teachers integrate music into curriculum through donating guitars and ukuleles, instrument training, and training in learning how to use songs to teach math, science, English and History, as well as classroom management. I taught a GITC class for a group of Berkshire County teachers in a series of sessions from 2011-2012. In 2013 and 2014 I co-taught with Jess Baron, the founder of Guitars In The Classroom, at the MTA Convention in Williamstown MA. We taught a three-day intensive that covered instrument training, songs for memorization, classroom management, piggy-back songwriting, and more.
In 2011, I also started working with Stefanie Weber creating Tap and Blues. Together, we have performed in libraries, schools, cafes, dance studios, and house concerts as well as artist residencies, exploring the historical intersection of Rhythm Tap and Delta Blues. I brought Stefanie into my summer music program, and it was a great success.
2014 I have partnered with The Pittsfield Music School’s outreach program, bringing concerts, one-on-one singing with a variety of instruments, and instrument building to the BcArc program in Berkshire County.

Websites: www.robinoherin.com • www.raisingtheblues.org
• www.guitarsintheclassroom.org • www.youtube.com/robinohe

http://www.robinoherin.com • http://www.concertsinyourhome.com/artist/ROHerin.html
http://www.reverbnation.com/robinoherin • http://www.youtube.com/robinohe
http://www.facebook.com/robinoherinblues • http://www.fertileuniverse.com/tapandblues

	The Road To Prague Instrumental on a National Steel Resonator Guitar		Guitar Instrumental
	Hold On Holy Blues with Vocals and Resonator guitar.		Blues

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