In November she’ll be back, performing at this year’s Majors Creek Festival.

Lumsden sees live country music as a chance for a community to gather and celebrate their way of life.

She has travelled over 104,000 kilometres in the past eighteen months, performing in venues big and small with her Country Halls Tour throughout Australia. She loves performing in tiny halls in the middle of nowhere, well off the standard touring circuit.

“It’s a chance for community to come together and have a really good time, and for us to have a good time as well,” Lumsden said.

“They’re like kind of bringing it back to what I think it should be about really, everyone coming together and celebrating some kind of common cause.”

Lumsden describes her music as Country Alt, or modern Australian. As a singer songwriter, she sees country music as a chance to celebrate the stories of the community.

“Country music is essentially storytelling and there's a lot of stories to tell, especially from country areas, and I think that should be celebrated,” Lumsden said.

At Majors Creek, she’s looking to have fun, and bring the audience along with her. With band the Thrillseekers, she will be showcasing songs from her new record, ‘Real Class Act’.

“We think it’s awesome that little towns like Majors Creek put on festivals and go to all that work to celebrate music,” Lumsden said.

Alongside Lumsden, the Friday night at the festival will be celebrating women in music. After an opening concert to kick off the festival, the main stage will feature acts by woman, including the Mae Trio and Terra Lightfoot.

The line up was initially a coincidence, but the committee has embraced it as a chance to showcase women in music, says Holly Downes, assistant director of the festival.

“There’s been a real awareness growing around the role of women in the music industry, it’s one of the industries with a really poor record of gender parity,” Downes said, “we are really trying to make sure that we address that.”

“We’re striving towards equality in so many ways at the festival.

“It just ties in with an ethos of making the world a better place.”