CCMAs bring the best of Canadian country music to Edmonton [Video]

Josh Ross took home top honours Saturday with his whisky-soaked ballad of heartbreak and k.d. lang got the band back together as the Canadian Country Music Association Awards returned to Alberta’s capital city for the first time in a decade.

Ross, from Burlington, Ont., captured single of the year for Trouble. The 28-year-old former college football player turned country star also took home male artist of the year and entertainer of the year at the show, held at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

“This song was a surreal song,” Ross said, adding it highlights the struggles he felt when moving to Nashville to pursue his music career.

Ross said he and his band play roughly 150 shows every year and are never home, but said he feels that taking home entertainer of the year made the hard work worth it.

“I thank each and every one of you,” he said.

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