Phil Wiggins (1954–2024) was a blues musician, teacher, artistic director, and recipient of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship (2017), the highest honor the United States bestows on the Traditional Arts. He was a two-time winner of the prestigious WC Handy Blues Foundation Award, in 1984 for Best Traditional Album of the Year and in 1987 as Entertainer of the Year.
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