{"id":1343,"date":"2019-03-18T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/queensplate\/washboard-union-wins-juno-award-breakthrough-group-year\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:46:36","slug":"washboard-union-wins-juno-award-breakthrough-group-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/kingsplate\/2019\/03\/18\/washboard-union-wins-juno-award-breakthrough-group-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washboard Union wins JUNO Award as Breakthrough Group of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, March 18, 2019 &#8211; The Washboard Union, who will headline the opening day of the Queen&#8217;s Plate Racing Festival this summer at Woodbine Racetrack, earned their first JUNO Award as\u00a0Breakthrough Group of the Year this past weekend in London, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hearts are literally exploding tonight as we won our first\u00a0<a class=\"notranslate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thejunoawards\/\">@thejunoawards<\/a>\u00a0for Breakthrough Group of the Year,&#8221; the group wrote in an Instagram post following the\u00a0awards ceremony that celebrates the country&#8217;s biggest achievements in Canadian music. &#8220;We are blessed to have an army of passionate people behind us that make this life possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvFy1kFBI-A\/<\/p>\n<p>Check out The Washboard Union&#8217;s exclusive performance of &#8220;Shot of Glory&#8221; live from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/blog\/washboard-union-talks-qp19-kx96\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KX96 New Country FM<\/a>&#8216;s kitchen last week when they announced their upcoming Queen&#8217;s Plate Racing Festival performance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#QP19 | The Washboard Union performs Shot of Glory at KX96\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LEGrCE8kUjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Washboard Union will open this year\u2019s Queen\u2019s Plate Racing Festival at Woodbine Racetrack with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/woodbine-news\/juno-award-nominee-washboard-union-perform-2019-queens-plate-racing-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live performance on Friday, June 28<\/a>. 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