IT IS no secret that Kasey Chambers is a festival fan favourite.
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She’ll make her big return to Tamworth on Thursday in her only gig for the big event and as always, she’s bound to leave nothing behind in her performance.
You can catch her at Wests’ League Club from 8.30pm.
Chambers is up for six golden guitar awards this year for her album Firefly and it follows on from her ARIA win for album of the year in 2017.
But where there’s success, Chambers also has given back to the industry that has given her so much.
She flew into Tamworth just a couple of weeks ago to jam with some very lucky CMAA Academy of Country Music students.
Speaking to The Leader, Chambers said she is the happiest she has “ever been” in her career.
“I’m on top of the world,” she said.
“I actually feel as happy in my career as I’ve ever felt in my whole life.
“I am so lucky that I am a woman over 40 in the music industry and I can still have a number one record and win an ARIA and all of those wonderful things that I appreciate.
“But most of all I can still go out and play music and draw crowds and play live – which is my favourite thing to do.
“I still get to make the records that I love to make and I get to make them the way I want to make them.
“I get to share the songs that I write, my life story and my therapy.
“Luckily people are still sticking on board with me so that’s really nice.”
Chambers’ hinted that fans can expect a real mix from her catalogue, with her favouring both the old and new tracks which tell her life story.
“I’m coming off the back of Dragonfly, I’ll be playing a few songs from that” she said.
“But I still love going back and playing all the old songs.
“We’ll still do songs from The Captain and Barricades and Brick walls and all the old ones.
“To be honest, I like playing them as much as any of them – I quite like playing a few new songs here and there.
“But I still feel that those old songs are more me than anything, they are part of what’s shaped who I am as an artist and as a person so I still love going back and playing The Captain and songs like that.”
Through her style of music, Chambers is also embracing the unique and the wonderful and urging others to be themselves.
She said no matter what genre artists belonged to, it was important to remain authentic.
“Sometimes I think people overthink it a little bit. I play the music I like to play, I listen to the music I like to listen to and I think if somebody is doing something authentic that’s really all that matters to me,” Chambers said.