{"id":607359,"date":"2026-09-21T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607359\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:00:10","slug":"medicine-hats-mackenzie-porter-wins-2026-ccma-award-with-her-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607359\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat\u2019s MacKenzie Porter wins 2026 CCMA Award with her husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/adb3bfa5-1b47-4477-9c38-1392455a4750.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Medicine Hat&#8217;s Mackenzie Porter and her husband Jake Etheridge took home an award at the 2026 Canadian Country Music Awards in Saskatoon on Saturday. (Image Credit: thelmaandjames.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Jesse Gill<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Country Music Association<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 21, 2026 | 10:19 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Medicine Hat\u2019s MacKenzie Porter brought home some hardware from the 2026 Canadian Country Music Awards in Saskatoon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This time, she did so as part of a duo with her husband Jake Etheridge.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, who perform as Thelma &amp; James, won Video of the Year for their song Parking Lot Prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The couple began Thelma &amp; James in early 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat&#8217;s Mackenzie Porter and her husband Jake Etheridge took home an award at the 2026 Canadian Country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-607359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}