The show will include Schneider's renditions of Day's classics and originals.

"This all started back in 2003 when I did a tribute concert to Doris," Schneider said. "I had such a lovely, positive reaction from the audience and my mum said 'Melinda, you have got to do a project about Doris Day'.

"Seven years later I was asked to do Dancing With The Stars and I thought now would be a good time because I'd been all singing and now I was going to be all dancing and Doris Day was both.

"I've always loved her. As a kid, Calamity Jane was the first movie I saw of hers."

In 2010, Schneider released a tribute album Melinda Does Doris - A Tribute To Doris Day, which debuted at number one on the ARIA Jazz and Blues chart where it remained for nine weeks.

The following year, she co-wrote and starred in the successful original theatre show, DORIS, Doris Day - So Much More Than The Girl Next Door.

Since the age of three, Schneider has been performing on stage with her mother and showbiz runs through her veins.

"I knew I loved singing and songwriting but I was strongly encouraged by my mother to yodel because that's what she did, but that wasn't really my thing," she said.

"I did feel pressure from that from my family and my mum's fans and I had to pull away. I released my first album at 28 and I got into music on my own terms.

"For me, country music really tell a story.

"I like the way you can really process a lot of emotions and I think the songs are very healing for people.

"It can be hard for people to go into those emotions in this society because we're not encouraged to cry, we're supposed to be happy all the time. But I think with these songs they fast-track that process and allow people to feel what they need to feel."

With music, fashion and dancing under her belt, Schneider is the definition of versatile.

As she tours the country paying tribute to another versatile woman, Schneider continues writing and is working on her 12^th album.

"I'm becoming more outspoken the older I get about what I believe in and standing up for what I believe in," she said.

"I have a lot of songs about women; the different things and struggles we go through.

"I became a mum seven years ago and that was the best thing to happen in my life and changed me a lot, I think for the better. It's changed my songwriting a lot - about him, with him in mind and what I want for him.

"I write about all sorts of things - domestic violence, empowering yourself, sad songs.

"But most of all they're honest."

Melinda Schneider: A Farewell to Doris begins at 8pm tomorrow night at The lighthouse Theatre with last minute tickets still available.

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