Holger Petersen is a veteran Canadian broadcaster whose weekly Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio has been a fixture on the network for more than twenty-five years. At home in Alberta, his CKUA network show, Natch'l Blues, has been aired every week for more than forty years. Petersen also runs his own record label, Stony Plain Records -- one of Canada's longest surviving independent record companies -- and was a founder of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. He is a member of the Order of Canada and has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Athabasca University.