Bobbi's musical roots go deep. Her father, a municipal court judge in Bridgton, Maine, played trumpet and cornet in a  Dixieland band. She says she can remember her first gig—at age five. She sang “When the Saint-s...” for all her stuffed animals. In Middle School, she taught herself guitar, borrowing heavily from Leo Kottke and Joni Mitchell. In High School, she says, she was a geek, the loner hanging out in the music room when she wasn't getting shoved into lockers. Still, she says she never misssed an opportunity to play—in bars, ice cream shops, art shows, kids' parties. In college, she studied music science, but never really took to classical music. Instead she went on to spend seven years playing all over the country, including gigs in Colorado and California, before returning to Maine where she commenced playing here and there and everywhere.

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