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Photo – Jess Gleeson

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Support for EMILY WURRAMARA

ARIA Awards – Best Adult Contemporary Album 2024 (NARA)

J Awards – rage & triple j Film Clip of the Year 2024 (‘Lordy Lordy’)

The Australian Music Prize 2024 (Longlist – NARA)

National Indigenous Music Awards 2024 – Film Clip of the Year (Nominee – ‘Magic Woman Dancing’)

National Live Music Awards – Best Folk Act 2023

National Live Music Awards – Live Voice in Tasmania 2023 (Nominee)

Environmental Music Prize 2023 (Nominee)

AIR Awards – Best Independent Children’s Album 2023 (Nominee – Ayarra Emeba / Hush EP)

National Indigenous Music Awards – Artist of the Year 2020 (Nominee)

AIR Awards – Independent Blues and Roots Album 2019 (Milyakburra)

ARIA Awards – Best Blues and Roots Album 2018 (Nominee – Milyakburra)

Australian Music Prize – Tomorrow Maker Award 2018

AIR Awards – Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year 2019 (Nominee)

National Indigenous Music Awards – Album of the Year 2018 (Nominee – Milyakburra)

“I have not seen a room come together the way they do when Emily is singing.” – VICE

“a confident and outgoing second album.” – The Guardian

“a deeply personal journey through a markedly eclectic musical landscape… a gorgeous melange of sound and style.” – The Australian

“With co-producer Kuya James, the honey-voiced Warnindhilyagwa singer-songwriter proceeds to smooth her crisp acoustic roots with subtle electronic colours… the emotional push and pull of a career in motion” – The Age / Sydney Morning Herald

“NARA brims with layered arrangements that move confidently across genres and guests… the album’s title may translate to ‘nothing’ in Anindilyakwa, but NARA is quite something indeed” – The Big Issue

“Emily Wurramara is a rare artist, and the follow-up to 2018’s highly acclaimed debut album Milyakburra proffers the depths of her music ability and the lengths she’ll go to deliver it. Through an exhilarating mix of blues, indie, country and folk, NARA’s guiding light is strength and honesty… [NARA] reflects on the most unpalatable parts of life, while simultaneously finding the beauty in it.” – Rolling Stone

“Fans of Warnindhilyagwa woman Emily Wurramara have been waiting a long time for NARA. Once you hear it, that wait will feel insignificant – this is a comprehensive exploration of the many dimensions of Emily Wurramara’s musical powers” – ABC News

“NARA features soul-baring tracks about incredibly dark and personal topics – the kind most other artists would only dare broach if they were camouflaged in metaphors – and Wurramara feels so confident in them” – The Music (Cover Artist)

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Following back-to-back wins at the ARIA Awards (Best Adult Contemporary Album – NARA) and the J Awards (rage & triple j Film Clip of the Year – ”Lordy Lordy‘) — the former of which officially adds her to the history books as the first Indigenous woman to ever win in this category since the awards inception in 1987 — internationally lauded lutruwita/Tasmania-based artist, activist, author and proud Warnindhilyagwa woman hailing from Groote Eylandt & Milyakburra/Bickerton Island EMILY WURRAMARA (she/her) today shares a round of encore album tour dates in February and March 2025 across so-called VIC, WA, SA, NSW and ACT in support of her multi-award-winning album NARA (out now via ABC Music).

The new dates celebrate a successful initial album tour which included multiple sold out shows, featuring headline gigs across Dharawal Country (Wollongong), Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) and Naarm/Melbourne – the acclaimed artists’ first headline there in 9 years – as well as festival appearances at Treaty Day Out, WOMADelaide, Perth Festival and Riverboats.

Tickets for Emily Wurramara’s encore NARA album tour are available for purchase HERE – all dates below. NARA is out now via ABC Music – stream/purchase HERE.

Of her historic win, which follows a full-circle moment at this year’s ARIAs where Emily Wurramara presented Best Blues & Roots Album — the award her 2018 debut album Milyakburra was previously nominated for — Wurramara says: “I [want] to say how honoured I am to be the first Indigenous woman to win the Best Adult Contemporary Album Award ever in ARIA history. I’d just like to acknowledge all the Elders and all the mob who came here in order for me to be here. NARA is a big album for me, and I am so so honoured to be receiving this nod and recognition – big love, and thanks everyone for the support”

ARIA shared the news yesterday, saying “We’re thrilled to acknowledge Emily Wurramara’s historic achievement in becoming the first Indigenous woman to win the Best Adult Contemporary Album ARIA Award for NARA. The album debuted at #17 on ARIA’s Aus Albums Chart on September 2 and was awarded the ARIA for Best Adult Contemporary Album at the 2024 ARIA Awards on November 20. Huge, well-deserved congratulations to Emily and all involved in this incredible album and historic achievement.”

Dubbed one “of the country’s greatest voices” (Double J), Emily Wurramara’s live shows are at once intimate and brimming with an overwhelming sense of community, packed with full-chested sing-alongs, heartfelt stories, raw honesty and laughter. Gracing the stage once again in 2025, the encore dates will see her playing in varying formats that showcase her incredible skill and sleek melodies, taking the audience along with her on a profound journey of growth and healing.

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Steeped in love for community, NARA was co-produced by Wurramara and James Mangohig (A.B. Original, Daniel Johns), recorded at Boat Ramp Studios on Larrakia Country and features triple j-added singles ‘STFAFM’ ft. Arringarri,  ‘Lordy Lordy’ ft. Tasman Keith, as well as ‘Magic Woman Dancing‘ — the enchanting video for which scored a nomination at the NIMAs — & ‘Midnight Blues‘; with additional features from Lisa Mitchell and Zeppelin Hamilton (Velvet Trip). A self-described “rebirth” album titled for the Anindilyakwa word meaning “nothing”, NARA — debuting at #17 on ARIA’s Aus Albums Chart, #9 on the Digital Albums chart, and #6 on the AIR Albums Chart, also longlisted for the Australian Music Prize — has attracted high praise from musicians, actors, comedians and media figures alike from The Wiggles to Nicky Winmar, Barkaa to Ben Lee, Fanny Lumsden, Sean Millis and many more. The album beckons its listeners through mystical portals on a varicoloured journey of growth, that sees Emily Wurramara tracing intense highs and lows – from winning accolades and taking her music across the world, losing her house in a fire, giving birth to her daughter and struggling with her mental health – to her ultimate arrival at peace in the knowledge that “It was when I had nothing, I realised I had everything”  – drawing glowing reviews from Rolling Stone, The Age, The Australian, Beat Magazine, The Big Issue, The AU Review and support via The Guardian, The Brag Media (Record of the Week), Junkee, SBS Living Black with Karla Grant, ABC News, ARIA Amplified, NITV, Daily Telegraph, Witchology Magazine UK and was added at Double J (who also named it 12th best album of the year) and named Feature across 8 community radio stations with strong DSP support. Rollicking mental health anthem and current single ‘STFAFM’ features Wurramara’s little brother — spoken word poet Arringarriin his musical debut — who joined her onstage for the first time during the album’s initial tour run.

Emily Wurramara’s music – from her Black Smoke EP (2016), debut album Milyakburra (2018), to the Ayarra Emeba (Calm Songs) EP (2022) – is a masterful showcase of her breath-taking talents as a songwriter, storyteller and performer who is known for her ability to evoke feeling through intimacy and appreciation of life’s subtleties, written and sung in both English and Anindilyakwa language. She has built a striking, refined live reputation via sold-out headline shows, appearances at prestige venues like the Sydney Opera House, and countless festivals & events nationally including A Festival Called Panama, Groovin The Moo, RISING, Bluesfest, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Sydney Festival, YABUN Festival, The Gum Ball, Wild Village Festival, Badayijeng Ninggoowoong-Woorr Festival, BlakYard Picnic, Queenscliffe Music Festival and many more including the Protect Our Oceans benefit series, also having performed at the Australian High Commission in Papua New Guinea, TEDx and with the Queensland Orchestra, supported the likes of Uncle Archie Roach, Mavis Staples, Missy Higgins, Baker Boy, Rob Thomas, The Cat Empire, ICEHOUSE, Jack Johnson, Midnight Oil, and John Farnham, and internationally at Folk Alliance International (Turtle Island/USA & Canada) & National Sawdust (New York, Turtle Island/USA) with appearances across Sweden, France, and beyond.

Wurramara collaborated this year with PNAU via a highly-praised feature ‘So High‘ on their Hyperbolic album alongside names like Troye Sivan, Ladyhawke, Khalid and Bebe Rexha, also appearing on previous collabs with Reuben James (Tory Kelly, Sam Smith), Grammy Award-winning producer Q million, Emma Donovan, Kee’ahn, Fred Leone, DRMNGNOW, Bumpy and more on heartfelt tribute ‘Forever 15‘, JK-47, Kutcha Edwards, The Wiggles (on ARIA-winning Re:Wiggled! as well as Emma! 2), Tibetan musician & activist Tenzin Choegyal, Mereani Masani (PNG) and many more, and on Bad//Dreems’ triple j Like A Version alongside Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil) and members of Mambali (which placed in the station’s Hottest 100) before making her own debut on the acclaimed segment this year, covering Hozier’s ‘Too Sweet‘.

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NARA ENCORE
Tour Dates

Fri 7 Feb – Workers Club, Naarm/Melbourne, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country VIC | Tickets
Sat 8 Feb – Treaty Day Out, Gunaikurnai Country VIC | Tickets
Sat 15 Feb – Riverboats Music Festival, Yorta Yorta Country VIC | Tickets
Sun 16 Feb – Perth Festival, Whadjuk Noongar Country WA | Tickets
Fri 7 Mar & Mon 10 Mar – WOMADelaide, Kaurna Yerta SA | Tickets
Fri 21 Mar – Music Lounge (Great Southern Nights), Wollongong, Dharawal Country NSW | Tickets
Sat 22 Mar – Belco Arts Centre, Canberra, Ngunnawal Country ACT | Tickets

All tickets on sale now here

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Emily Wurramara – NARA
Out now via ABC Music
Stream – Purchase

TRACKLIST

Midnight Blues
WWGBH ft. Zeppelin Hamilton
It’s You
DTMN
FRIEND
STFAFM ft. Arringarri
Verandah
Lordy Lordy ft. Tasman Keith
Boom Biddy Bye
See Me There ft. Lisa Mitchell
Magic Woman Dancing
Passport

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Photo – Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore

More about EMILY WURRAMARA

Emily Wurramara continues to be a force of empowerment, with a preternatural ability to bring people together in the most open and vulnerable way. Furthering this sense of connection, she has dedicated herself to championing vital causes like mental health, youth suicide prevention and environmental issues. Her work in these spaces echoes the emotional nuance and depth of compassion that resonate so strongly in her songcraft, and includes her role as a second-time mentor via The Mushroom Group x Coles First Nations Pathways Program as well as roles as an ambassador for First Nations Foundation and Kennell & Co. Now a first-time author, having co-written children’s book Marringa Lullaby – based on her song of the same name –  with Sylvia Wurramarrba Tkacfor HarperCollins – the impact of her art is evident, with her catalogue amassing over 40 million streams; her new era garnering widespread support from media internationally, also soundtracking art gallery installations and fashion runways alike. 

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AMNPLIFY – DB