AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS 

Country music star Kasey Chambers says she wants to be a mum first and musician second after the birth of her baby later this year.

Chambers is due to give birth to her second child in early July, and the 30-year-old singer-songwriter has been taking full advantage of the pregnancy after a busy 2006 schedule.

"I finished touring in the first week of December, and I just pretty much stopped everything completely after that, I've just been at home hanging out," Chambers said after arriving at the Tamworth country music festival on ?Sunday.

"I'm making the most of it, laying on the couch, sleeping in, it's been really good."

The seven-time ARIA Award winner is back on the road for the next few months though, beginning with a free Australia Day concert at the country music festival with Missy Higgins.

The two have been planning the show via email, and even at this stage Chambers is unsure exactly how the performance will work.

She expects a solo performance from 23-year-old Higgins, who has spent the past months recording her second album in Los Angeles, but hopes the two can perform at least a few songs together.

Chambers says she has been a big fan of Higgins ever since she discovered they shared a love for American songwriter Patty Griffin.

"She (Griffin) has been a huge influence on me, and when I first saw Missy Higgins, before she made it big ... she came back for an encore and did a Patty Griffin song," Chambers said.

"I'd never heard anyone in my life play a Patty Griffin song, and I just thought: 'That's awesome!'"

After an acoustic tour across northern Queensland and Darwin with her husband and father in February and March, plus an appearance at the Byron Bay Blues Festival, Chambers will focus exclusively on her expanding family, which includes her four-year-old son Talon.

"I haven't taken anything on for the rest of the year. I'd just rather wait and see how I feel," Chambers said of her post-pregnancy plans.

"I went out on the road not long after Talon was born, and it was good and I enjoyed it, but I think I'd like to spend a bit of time with my family.

"When I go out on tour, I get itchy feet and I just go: 'Oh, I want to be home', I do enjoy being home a lot more.

"I'm married now, and I've got a kid on the way. I'm 30, I'm not a teenager any more."

The Tamworth country music festival concludes on January 28.

Chambers is pregnant with her first child with husband Australian singer/songwriter Shane Nicholson, whom she married in late 2005.

She had Talon in May 2002 with then partner actor/director Cori Hopper.