Robin Kessinger is featured on a number of his own Fiddletunes CDs such as Raw Guitar"

and "Robin Kessinger," a compilation of two previously released cassette tapes. In addition, with fiddler Cathy Pearson,

Robin also recorded the "Duet" album featuring a rich selection of new and old fiddle tunes.
Robin also appears on a number of other ablums. For instance, he is among a half dozen fine Appalachian artists who perform on the "Roots and Branches" CD.

Robin appears with Robert Shafer on R&R, an album guitar players everywhere have been waiting for -- duets by two legendary contemporary West Virginia pickers.

Besides these, Robin also is a guest performer on "The Mountain Dulcimer," "Jenny Allinder" and "Dave Bing."

A native-born living West Virginia flatpick guitar legend, young Robin Kessinger keeps a busy schedule, teaching both beginner and advanced guitar students, and still finds time for memorable concerts, workshops and contests.

His awards include the 1985 National Flatpick Championship at Winfield, Kansas; the 1989 and 1990 Galax, Va., best performer championship, and firsts in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Georgia.

Robin headlines many festivals and judges up-and-coming flat-pick artists in contests around the country. He has appeared on PBS and BBC television specials and NPR radio shows.

He has been an instructor at the Augusta Heritage Workshops in Elkins, W.Va., since 1983. In 1997 he began teaching at the newly organized Allegheny Echoes Workshop near Marlinton, West Virginia. In 1996, 1997 and 1998 Robin joined renowned master flatpickers Russ Barenberg, Curtis Burch, Dan Crary, Pat Flynn, Beppe Gambetta, Steve Kaufman, and Tim Stafford as an instructor at Steve Kaufman's Flatpicking Camp in Maryville, Tennessee.

Robin lists his influences as "everything I listen to," and also his father, Bob, and his great uncle, fiddler Clark Kessinger.