“I cried.  I felt really silly, but I did,” said Grace Morrison of Grace and the RSO upon hearing the news the she and her band had won the recent Big Break contest on WPRI 12’s "The Rhode Show."

The results, announced May 1, saw Morrison (who resides in Wareham) and her band (an Americana/folk/indie act out of Southeastern Massachusetts) take first place out of a group of five musical acts that had already been whittled down from a much larger field of entries.

The winner was selected through a combination of fan voting (40 percent) and judges from the Big Break contest (60 percent).

Morrison said that she was particularly touched by the number of fans who voted for her band, as well as by the number of who shared a previous story in Wareham Week about the band’s selection into the top five for the Big Break show.

“I’ve got to say, tons of people shared [the story] -- people I hadn’t spoken to in years and years…It felt like the whole town was rooting for me," she said. "That’s why I got teared- up. There were just so many people rooting for us.”

Grace and the RSO won’t have a lot of time to celebrate their recent win. On Monday, they’ll be shooting a music video at the Biltmore Hotel in Providence as part of their prize for winning the contest.

Other than the location of the shoot, Morrison said the band had received little information regarding the details of the video, nor have they heard anything about Part 2 of their prize — an upcoming concert at Twin Rivers Casino in Lincoln, R.I.

That said, her and her fellow female bandmate, violin player Marta Rymer, are excited about at least one thing in particular—the wardrobe for the video shoot.

“Marta said she’s really excited to see what we’ll be wearing for the video,” said Morrison, who said she couldn’t go into details of what they will be wearing, but that they were anticipating something really special and unique.

Other members of Morrison's band, who've been playing together for about four years, include Ben Moniz (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals), Daniel McDowell (base) and Nate Tucker (percussion). Nate, currently in Las Vegas for a gig, won't make Monday's video but Morrison said she expects him to join them at the Twin River.

On Monday, they’ll shoot the video for their song “The Trouble,” which is the same song they performed on the Rhode Show. It also happens to be a single off their upcoming album entitled “Nothing to Lose,” which they hope will be out by the end of summer.

Every band needs a ‘big break’ at some point, and Morrison said she’s hoping this win, combined with the busy summer the band already has scheduled, will lead to even bigger and better things for them.

“I’m hoping that will help us get a bigger fan base,” she said, noting that they’d be playing the New Bedford Folk Festival this summer, and that recently they opened up for Pete Francis, who plays in the popular band Dispatch, at the Narrows in Fall River.  “We’re hoping in the next year to maybe get out on the road and to open for some bigger bands.”

For more information on the band, visit graceandtherso.com.