Saturday Night Blues

Saturday Night Blues is a Canadian radio program, which airs Saturday nights on CBC Radio One. Hosted by Holger Petersen, the program airs a mix of blues concerts, recordings and interviews with blues musicians. SNB first broadcast in 1986.

Petersen, the program's host, is the owner of Canadian roots music label Stony Plain Records. A compilation album of live performances from the show, also called Saturday Night Blues (and subtitled The Great Canadian Blues Project, Vol. 1) was released in 1991 and won the 1992 Juno Award for Best Roots and Traditional Album of the Year.

For his work on Saturday Night Blues and on CKUA Radio's Natch'l Blues, in 2008 Petersen won the 'Keeping the Blues Alive',[1] award in the Public Radio category from the Blues Foundation based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

Great Canadian Blues Award

The Great Canadian Blues Awards were established in 1990.[2]

SNB presents an annual Great Canadian Blues Award to the year's best Canadian blues musician. Winners of the award have included the Downchild Blues Band, Jim Byrnes, David Gogo, Colin Linden, Rita Chiarelli, David Wilcox, Colin James, Long John Baldry, Big Dave McLean (1998), Matt Minglewood, Sue Foley, Georgette Fry, Harry Manx, and Jeff Healey.

References

  1. ↑ "2008 Keeping the Blues Alive Awards". Blues.org. Archived from the original on April 27, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Saturday Night Blues | Great Canadian Blues Award". CBC.ca. 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2016-02-11.

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