Cephas & Wiggins Concert History

They met at a D.C. folk festival sponsored by the Smithsonian back in 1977, and performed a simple but sweet brand of laid back folk blues, the Piedmont Blues. John Cephas played a unique six string style featuring alternating thumb and finger, with the thumb creating a steady, loping bass line underneath as the melody is simultaneously picked out on the treble strings.

Date Concert Venue Location
Apr 29, 1994
Cephas & Wiggins

MerleFest

Wilkes Campus Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, NC, USA
Jun 20, 1993
Cephas & Wiggins

City Stages

Linn Park Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Apr 29, 1993 –
May 02, 1993
Merle Watson Memorial Festival
Doc Watson & Friends / Shady Grove Band / Del McCoury Band / Pete Wernick & Guests / Good Ol' Persons / Lonesone River Band / Doc Watson & Jack Lawrence / Mary-Chapin Carpenter / Jeff Robbins / John Hartford / Cox Family / Tony Rice Unit / Tim O'Brien and The O'Boys / Laurie Lewis & Grant Street / Seldom Scene / Frosty Morn / Raffi / Norman Blake & Tony Rice / Beausoleil / Peter Rowan / Tish Hinojosa / Norman & Nancy Blake / Tin & Mollie O'Brien / Cephas & Wiggins / Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick / David Grisman / California / Alison Krause & Union Station / Nashville Bluegrass Band / Johnson mountain boys / Fairfield Four / Kukuruza / Emmylou Harris & Nash Ramblers / Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas & Russ Barenburg / Mark O'Conner Show all bands
Wilkes Community College North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
Feb 05, 1993
Cephas & Wiggins Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, United States
Jul 27, 1991
Cephas & Wiggins Blues Heritage Stage at Penn’s Landing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sep 13, 1988
Cephas & Wiggins

Sanremo Blues

Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Blues
Acoustic
Country Blues
Acoustic Blues
Harmonica Blues
Harmonica
Piedmont Blues
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