Holger Petersen

Who is Holger Petersen?

Holger Petersen, CM is a Canadian businessman, record producer and radio broadcaster. He owns and operates the independent roots music label Stony Plain Records, and hosts the programs Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio One and Natch'l Blues on the CKUA Radio Network. Born in Pellworm Island, Germany in 1949, Petersen moved to Canada with his family in 1955. Petersen was a founder of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival and served as the artistic director from 1986 to 1988. He was also formerly a musician, who was a member of Spiny Norman's Whoopee Band alongside future Alberta New Democratic Party leader Ross Harvey.

In 2009, Petersen was voted Best Public Broadcaster by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, the first time the award was presented to someone outside the United States.

He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Alberta.

Petersen is based in Edmonton, Alberta.