Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Mason, Dutch
Parallel form(s) of name
- Norman Brian Mason
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Description area
Dates of existence
1938-2006
History
Dutch Mason is one of Canada's best-known blues artists. Mason was born in Lunenburg is 1938 and growing up was in a number of bands and musical groups. In 2002, he was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame and in 2005 received an Order of Canada. He has received one of the first East Coast Music lifetime achievement awards, a Juno award, CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues Award and has an award named after him at the Harvest Blues Festival in Fredericton.