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Robin Kessinger is a world champion flatpicking guitar champion, a style of music that transfers traditional fiddle tunes to steel string guitar. He learned much of his repertoire from his uncle Clark Kessinger, a renowned old-time fiddler.

Mountain Stage Robin Kessinger and Tyler Grant perform some traditional flatpicking on this weeks episode of Mountain Stage, hitting airwaves starting Nov. 22 Our Song of the Week comes to us from two flat-picking champions, Tyler Grant and Robin Kessinger. A treasure of West Virginia flatpicking and old-time music, Robin Kessinger comes from a prominent musical family. Kessinger first met Tyler Grant in 2005 at the Wayne Henderson Festival and Contest in Virginia.  Kessinger was a judge for a...