It's been 20 years since Tania Kernaghan's last Golden Guitar win, and in 2018 she's a finalist in two categories.
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The success of Kernaghan's latest album, All Australian Girl, has been given the ultimate nod by her country music peers.
The country icon is up for a Golden Guitar in the Female Artist of the Year and Traditional Country Album of the Year categories at this year’s Country Music Awards of Australia on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
Kernaghan has a few gigs lined up for this year's festival aswell, you can catch her at The Golden Guitar gift shop on Australia Day.
On Australia Day also, she'll be performing a gig with Matt Scullion and Drew McAlister at The Loft on Peel St.
She'll also perform on the Fanzone Stage on the final Saturday of the big event.
She's even hinted she'll be joining her brother, Lee, at the Tamworth Regonal Entertainment and Conference Centre on January 25.
Kernaghan has visited Tamworth almost nearly every year since she first arrived in the 1980s.
She said she's looking forward to heading back, catching up with her country music mates and of course, the fans.
This year she’ll hopefully pick up a Golden Guitar award too.
"You work so hard making records, in the studio, recording and writing songs," Kernaghan told The Leader.
"To get recognised as a finalist in these awards and by your peers is the icing on the cake.”
Kernaghan said working on an album is a big process and there were so many more people behind the project.
"Albums are in a way like having kids, you want to make sure they're perfect in every way,” she said.
"It's not just me, but there are so many great musicians that got this record to where it is.
“My peers have obviously heard the musicianship in the album and thought it deserves to be a finalist."
Kernaghan says she's proud of the way the songs in her latest album have connected with her audience on many levels.
Her latest release shows many sides of her personality and the audience appears to resonate with her – from laughter and dancing to her song That’s A Tradie to the ballad Light in the Window.
Fans will get to experience the magic of Kernaghan's unique voice and showmanship in Tamworth this year – with the big event one of her favourite ways to begin a big year of music.
"I always get excited around Christmas and New Year, but the year doesn't really start until I get to Tamworth." she said.
"That's when things really kick off for my and I haven't missed too many years."