Country music fans have marked Australia Day at the annual Tamworth Country Music Festival. Source: AAP
COUNTRY music artist Troy Cassar-Daley has cleaned up at this year's Golden Guitars.
The singer-songwriter took out four award categories in Tamworth on Saturday night including the big one, album of the year and the coveted male artist of the year.
He also took home the APRA song of the year for his track Home and single of the year for Country Is.
The wins take Cassar-Daley's Golden Guitar tally to 25.
Backstage, Cassar-Daley said winning the four awards was a dream come true.
"It's so important," he told AAP backstage at the awards.
"At Christmas I was at my mum's house and I walked past my first Golden Guitar and I got the flutter, like I was a kid again.
"And as they were read out tonight, I still get it so it's still very important to me."
Catherine Britt, who equalled Cassar-Daley's award nominations of seven, scored herself one Golden Guitar for female artist of the year.
"Troy is one of the first artists to take me out on the road," she told AAP after the announcement.
"To me it just feels perfect - female and male artist of the year.
"I'm a very Australian, it's Australia Day, and we're here in Tamworth and I'm really over the moon."
Sister trio The McClymonts, who were up for five gongs, earned themselves top selling album of the year for Two Worlds Collide and best video clip for Piece of Me while Chelsea Basham earned best new talent for Laugh it Off.
Tamworth's favourite country music couple Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson took out duo of the year.
"If we can make a record together, and tour together, and not get divorced then it's a success already," Chambers told the crowd at the awards.
"I guess we're a group or duo all the time when we're not making records so this just means we're a good one," Nicholson chimed in.
Country music's night of nights included performances by multi-award winning Cassar- Daley and Catherine Britt.
It also featured a Kevin Bennett tribute to the late Jimmy Little, who died last year.
Also included was a video tribute to 90-year-old Geoff Mack who received a standing ovation and the lifetime achievement award on the night.
Mack's song, I've Been Everywhere, has been recorded by more than 130 artists including Johnny Cash and Rihanna.
The night concluded with a finale performance of I've Been Everywhere by The Sunny Cowgirls.
The Golden Guitars mark the end of the annual 10-day Tamworth Country Music Festival, which attracts thousands of local and international musicians and included more than 4,000 individual performances.
Tamworth's main street is home to hundreds of buskers over the festival's duration and is said to have launched the careers of artists such as Keith Urban and Kasey Chambers.
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