Rae Solomon is keeping busy.

The 24-year-old singer has been writing, traveling, performing and preparing to campaign for a record deal.

Solomon, a former rodeo queen from Enumclaw lives in Maple Valley these days, released her self-produced album “The Long Road from the Emerald City” just about year ago.

Shortly after performing at the Covington Days Festival last summer Solomon signed with Entertainment 29, a Nashville, Tenn., based management company.

“That’s been really exciting,” Solomon said by phone Monday from Greenville, S.C.

“I’ve had a lot of stuff going on with that. I came back here to Greenville and Nashville and recorded a couple of songs with Grammy award winning producer Noel Golden.”

Golden has worked with artists such as Aerosmith and Matchbox Twenty, Solomon explained.

After finishing up work with Golden in South Carolina, Solomon returned to the Seattle area, then opened up for Blake Shelton, the Country Music Association’s 2010 Male Country Artist of the Year.

“It was a great show and we got some great reviews for it,” she said. “I’ve got a couple of big shows coming up. I’m opening up for (Shelton) again on Aug. 20.”

Shelton, who is also a judge on NBC’s show “The Voice,” will perform a pair of shows in the Seattle area in August.

In June she will be opening for Blaine Larsen, who grew up just down the road from Solomon in Buckley, and at 23 has established his career in country music with a number of singles that have charted in the top five.

Oh, but there’s more, Solomon said.

She has become the spokesperson for a new marketing and branding company for artists called SponsTour. Solomon recently filmed a commercial for the company and is excited about the opportunities that will bring.

Right now, though, she’s writing songs with Benton Blount in South Carolina with the goal to “come up with a hit song and some new material.”

“We’re concentrating on putting together a five song EP (extended play),” Solomon said. “When I came back in December we recorded three songs then ended up losing the rights to one of them. So, we’re looking to do three or four more so we can fill out that EP.”

When the Reporter first spoke with Solomon last summer, she had hoped to be signed to a record deal by now, and though she hasn’t achieved that goal yet this EP should be a useful tool in that quest.

“With the EP and with all of that stuff, we’re starting to shop to record labels with the hope of getting signed with a major label,” she said. “It could be that magical experience and happen right away or it could be six months of negotiations.”

Her education in the music business should help, though. In 2010 she completed Music Business Master’s Certificate program through the Berklee College of Music with the idea that it would allow her to have more control over her music career.

It all makes sense given that she has dreamt of being a star since she was 7 years old, when she wrote her first song, and not long after she told her mother she was going to be on the radio someday.

Solomon told the Reporter a year ago that she grew up idolizing Garth Brooks and that she learned how to perform by watching his concert DVDs. She also points to Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as influences.

As she wraps up work on her EP, Solomon has a full slate of shows scheduled for the upcoming months and will be back in Seattle in late June for her show with Aces Up, a band based in Enumclaw, and Larsen in Puyallup.

In the middle of all that, she is also helping to put on a local music camp June 24-26 in Buckley called “Project Music.”

“It is a three day camp where we are teaching everything from songwriting to performance,” Solomon said. “At the end of the camp not only will someone have an opportunity to open a concert for myself and Aces Up but they will walk away with their own professional live recording.”

And, of course, there are shows to put on.

“Summer is coming up, too, which is our main touring season,” she said. “It’s a lot of traveling back and forth but most of my solid touring is around the Seattle area. Mainly, I’m just working away. I’m keeping myself busy.”