On January, 23 at the Australia Country Music awards Emma Jene took out the People's Choice Award for Most Promising Future Star.

"I was pretty excited, I was up against some great artists that I've known for a while or I've just become friends with," she said.

"I thought, no way, there are some beautiful songs in this section.

"When my name got called I was super excited and it was really unbelievable, I had to pinch myself a couple of times."

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Emma also performed at Country Music Festival performing three to four times a day over four days.

"It was an incredible experience something I think this would be at least my fifth or sixth time now that I've been there and every year just keeps getting better."

Emma said it was her fans that keep her motivated and she has a big goal for 2020.

"I'm hopefully heading to Nashville closer to the end of the year," she said.

"It's definitely in the talks at the moment - I'm really looking forward to it, it's been something I've wanted to do for a while since I released my albums.

"We'll hopefully be writing for my next album... meet some new people and do some networking."

In March, Emma will be performing a concert to raise funds for the SES after the recent fires.

It will be on March 22 at the Pyree Hall. You can find the details here.