The Wheat Pool won an award for “Best Country Artist/Group” at the inaugural Edmonton Music Awards just last week.

We wanted to say thanks to those who worked hard to get this event off the ground, and to those who put our name down for this and for the other nomination in the Best Group category.

Also wanted to say congrats to many of our friends, winners and not-winners alike, those who performed so well (looking at you Colleen Brown), and especially to those also nominated alongside of us.  The term “country” has some strict definitions and some loose ones, and we feel that we are most definitely the latter, and so we feel kind of pulled that award out from some peers who could easily have taken it for their hard work and success in the stricter sense of the term “country” (Corb Lund, Hey Romeo).  Those are incredibly talented people and we think they are as good as it gets for Edmonton artists.

Thanks again everyone. Our moms are proud.