Nashville star Clare Bowen celebrates engagement after long-time love proposes during a performance at The Grand Ole Opry

Nashville star Clare Bowen and her longtime love Brandon Robert Young are engaged.

The 31-year-old confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday when she retweeted the story broken by Sounds Like Nashville.

The Australian singer and actress, who plays songwriter Scarlett O'Connor in the hit country music show, simply wrote the words 'Thankyou!'

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It's on: Nashville star Clare Bowen and her longtime love Brandon Robert Young got engaged on Saturday night

It's on: Nashville star Clare Bowen and her longtime love Brandon Robert Young got engaged on Saturday night

Young, a fellow musician, popped the question while they were both performing at the The Grand Ole Opry at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

The concert was Bowen's 'first one minus the mane', having chopped off her signature long blonde tresses just weeks earlier, replacing it with an adorable pixie cut.

She revealed last month that she had been inspired to do it after hearing about a little girl who wanted to be like a princess but couldn't because she 'didn't have long hair'. 

Tweet: The 31-year-old confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday when she retweeted a news story with the words 'Thankyou'

Tweet: The 31-year-old confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday when she retweeted a news story with the words 'Thankyou'

Pixie: Just weeks ago, the singer and actress cut off her signature blonde tresses as a show of support to a young girl who thought she couldn't be a princess because she didn't have long hair

Pixie: Just weeks ago, the singer and actress cut off her signature blonde tresses as a show of support to a young girl who thought she couldn't be a princess because she didn't have long hair

'I wanted her, and others like her to know that's not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero. It's not what makes you beautiful either. It's your insides that count, she wrote in a Facebook post, 'even if you happen to be missing half of them.'

She explained that when she was four, she was diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma, a kidney cancer most common in young children.

'I'd overheard the doctors telling my family that the only hope of saving me was an experimental treatment that might kill me anyway. But without it I had maybe two weeks left,' she divulged.

Duet: Sounds Like Nashville tweeted the news that Young had proposed while the two were performing in Nashville

Duet: Sounds Like Nashville tweeted the news that Young had proposed while the two were performing in Nashville

Lightheaded: Clare had posted before the show that it was her 'first one minus the mane'

Lightheaded: Clare had posted before the show that it was her 'first one minus the mane'

'And then I got really lucky. I survived, my hair grew back and I got strong again. I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look.'

She thanked network ABC for allowing her to cut her character's hair too. 

'If it makes even one person think twice about judging another, then in some small way, the world is better,' she concluded. 'Self-esteem takes a lot longer to grow back than hair.' 

Strong: Bowen herself is a cancer survivor who was told she had just weeks to live when she was four years old

Strong: Bowen herself is a cancer survivor who was told she had just weeks to live when she was four years old

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