Saturday Night Blues
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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.
The program also presents an annual Great Canadian Blues Award to the year's best Canadian blues musician. Winners of the award have included Jim Byrnes, David Gogo, Colin Linden, Rita Chiarelli, David Wilcox, Colin James, Long John Baldry, Matt Minglewood, Sue Foley and the 2006 winner, Georgette Fry.
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, was released in 1992 and won the 1992 Juno Award for Best Roots and Traditional Album of the Year.
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