Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham

Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham Plot Expansive 2026 Australian Tour

One of Australian country music’s favourite duos, Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham, are hitting the road again this spring and summer. The pair will be embarking on their Go North Go South Tour, an 18-date run stopping in locations across New South Wales and Victoria. The duo are touring in support of their latest chart-topper, their third album, Everything Around You.

Aug 20, 2026

VIDEO PREMIERE: Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham - ‘Everything Around You’ - COUNTRYTOWN

Fresh off the success of their ARIA #1 country album, Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham are giving fans a new way to experience Everything Around You - this time through a stunning, deeply personal video for the album’s title track. Filmed during a mid-tour stop on the NSW South Coast, the clip captures the duo performing at dawn on the sweeping hills of Bald Point, just as the sun begins to rise. It’s the kind of cinematic, quietly powerful setting that perfectly mirrors the song’s themes of connection, reflection and finding meaning in the world around you. And while the visuals are undeniably beautiful, it’s the story behind the song that gives this release even more weight...

May 1, 2026

When Music Finds You: Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham at Lefty’s - WAXX LYRICAL

Sometime music wanders up, offers to buy you a drink and is the best thing to happen in a good, long while. It’s magical, isn’t it, when a few people pick up their instruments, play them and let you listen? They don’t get paid enough, obviously. Nobody who does this gets paid enough. But they still let us listen. I should categorise what they played, the genres, the vibe. Doesn’t matter. You don’t care about it all that much. I’m not going to pretend to know. Country, blues, folk? All of the above. More country than anything but not just country. There are other things going on. Anyway, genre and style are irrelevant when you’re in the company of people who can summon up joy from wood, strings and voices. I have no doubt that if they decided to try their hand at Norwegian doomcore they’d be magnificent but tonight, sensibly, they gave the audience what they came for. Though Ürquhart og Cünningham does have a certain ring to it. Just saying…

Apr 1, 2026

Truth or Authority? Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham Push Back on “New Frontier” - ROCK THE PIGEON (USA)

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham dig into something darker and more urgent on “New Frontier,” a gritty, blues-soaked duet that questions where modern life is heading. Driven by bluesy acoustic guitar riffs and electric lines that weave between the vocals, the song carries a restless energy that feels both reflective and defiant. The arrangement moves with intention. Warm acoustic guitar lays the foundation while electric guitar phrases slip in between vocal lines, adding soulful textures and emotional lift. The vocal melody is distinctive and memorable, pulling the listener in with a sense of tension that never quite settles. Lyrically, “New Frontier” takes aim at digital dependence, algorithmic influence, and a culture increasingly shaped by fear. Rather than preaching, Urquhart and Cunningham deliver a steady warning about the cost of unchecked progress. When they ask, “Is authority truth or truth authority?” the question lands like a challenge, an invitation to think critically about the systems shaping everyday life.

Feb 22, 2026

Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham Craft Stunning Duet On Heartfelt “Lifeline” - GLIDE MAGAZINE (USA)

On their latest single, the heartfelt, twangy ballad “Lifeline,” Cunningham and Urquhart’s innate chemistry unravels with a poetic flourish. The duo’s vocals slowly dance with each other over a sleek, soulful country arrangement, as they explore the blinding realization of falling in love. “Lifeline” features a longing that is juxtaposed by the intimacy of the lyrics, almost as if the duo can’t decide if the love they’re experiencing is the right one. Rather than painfully ruminate, Urquhart and Cunningham bask in the possibilities of love and entertain the ever-curious heart. “Lifeline” is a stunning duet from a celebrated folk duo who still find joy in the nuances of creation and their relationship with art. “Love is the lifeline. We depend on it for our existence; it’s as much a rescue from danger as any rope thrown to a drowning person in wild seas, and an examination of the lifeline on any palm would reveal the presence or lack of love in that life,” explains Cunningham. “We all need it, we all want it, and we all love to sing about it.”

Dec 12, 2025

Video Premiere: Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham “We’ll Never Get Out Of Love Alive” - AMERICANA UK

Here’s a live in the studio recording of ‘We’ll Never Get Out of Love Alive’ from Australian duo Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham. Haunting and evocative, the words and melody slowly unfold, quietly drawing you into the song’s cinematic sense of romance. Cunningham’s warm, resonant guitar is outstanding – with just an acoustic, he creates incredible atmosphere, and everything is built around this. When Urquhart begins to sing, her voice is striking, and the impact is immediate. The real joy, here, is in how the pair respond to, and bring the best out of, one another; their performance together is an intimate dialogue, a graceful vocal dance that is hypnotic to observe. Lyrically, ‘We’ll Never Get Out of Love Alive’ is a thoughtful reflection on the nature of real love.

Dec 18, 2025

Inside ‘Everything Around You’: Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham Reflect on Love, Loss and Live Music - THE NOTE

Since coming together in 2020, Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham have released three albums together, with their most recent being this year’s Everything Around You. Currently midway through their national tour, the duo took some time away from the stage to discuss their new album, writing together and the importance of playing regional shows...

May 13, 2026

Album review: ‘unforced optimism’ abounds on Felicity Urquhart, Josh Cunningham’s third LP - THE AUSTRALIAN ★★★★

Just as Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings wound up their tour earlier this month in Geelong, Victoria, Australia’s answer to the revered American country-folk duo prepared to hit the road in support of their third album, Everything Around You. Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham launch their own national foray this weekend at Victoria’s Port Fairy Folk Festival. Like Welch and Rawlings, the Australian pair are also partners in life, which adds an engagingly personal dimension to their music. There was a moment on their 2021 debut album when award-winning NSW country singer Urquhart and Cunningham, guitarist with WA country-folk band the Waifs, knew their relationship had moved beyond mutual admiration as musicians and friends from opposite sides of the nation: “If you’re a gamble then I’ll take it / If you’re a wager then I’ll make it,” they sang on No Such Luck. Now all bets are off with Everything Around You, an unabashed celebration of their partnership on every level. “Sacred is the music, let the notes of music ring / And don’t ever abuse it, let it make you feel something,” they sing on the opening title track as the couple’s acoustic and slide guitars mesh with drummer Josh Schuberth’s part-time pedal steel in orchestrated agreement. The pop elements hinted at on the first two albums find full flower on this follow-up, with Urquhart channelling Dolly Parton on Lifeline and Olivia Newton-John on New Frontier. But countering Urquhart’s sweetness and purity of tone is some biting social comment: “Living on fear, porn and hopium (sic) / In a slum fenced in by an algorithm.” Equally robust is Riverside, a story song with aching tension and release between verse and chorus. It’s a tale of a serial loser whose life barely improves after his mother dies giving him birth, though the pair injects much-needed levity with a playful twist on Gershwin’s Summertime. Musically, the album is as rich as it is diverse, from the Duane Eddy twang of Please Ourselves to the tearaway rockabilly of Joy Roller, with its ripping guitar solo and rousing call-and-response outro. Between them, the two artists play acoustic, electric, baritone, resonator and slide guitars, along with mandotar (a mandolin-guitar hybrid), banjos, ukuleles, glockenspiel and jaw harp. Producer Matt Fell supplies bass, Hammond organ, mellotron, Wurlitzer and backing vocals on Go North Go South, while sisters (and Urquhart’s daughters) Tia and Ellie Hannah play fiddle and bass, respectively, on the quietly uplifting closing waltz, Grace and Joy. Also oozing positivity is the preceding Catch That Feeling, with its urgent rhyming refrain: “Live like you ain’t ever gonna hit the ceiling.” This is the overweening takeaway from Everything Around You: in a world otherwise wracked by war, geopolitical uncertainty and corrupt leadership, Urquhart and Cunningham’s unforced optimism provides much-needed solace and relief.

Mar 7, 2026

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham's Order – Make Us One With Everything - BERNARD ZUEL, MUSIC JOURNALIST

"...album three is a record found between a huge love story for two (and ultimately four) people, and a less romantic guide to surviving for the rest of the world, while musically it is bright and bouncy with some tough as teak moments. It’s like an album existing simultaneously in parallel worlds – one where they can declare “sacred is the music” while also advising “Let the others please themselves” – with similar goals to dim that drama and maybe bring you closer to, yes, everything around you."

Mar 5, 2026

Felicity Urquhart And Josh Cunningham Release ‘Stone In Your Heart’ Ahead Of New Album - NOISE11

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham have released their new single Stone In Your Heart, offering another clear signal of the creative depth and emotional clarity that will define their upcoming third studio album Everything Around You. Arriving ahead of the album’s March 2026 release, the song reinforces the duo’s reputation as two of Australia’s most respected contemporary songwriters working in the space where Country, Folk, Blues and Roots intersect.

Jan 20, 2026

Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham Announce New Album and Massive 2026 National Tour - COUNTRYTOWN

It's going to be a busy 2025 for everyone's favourite country duo. Multi-award-winning singer-songwriters Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham have announced a major return for 2026, confirming the release of their highly anticipated third studio album alongside a massive 23-date national tour. The new album, titled Everything Around You, is set for release on March 6, 2026, via ABC Music. With their last record Birdsong collecting them a trio of Golden Guitars and a nomination this year for Group / Duo of the year, the ARIA-nominated pair continue to build on their reputation as one of Australia’s most compelling musical acts.

Dec 4, 2025

They met in the aftermath and reminded each other that life could still be good - ABC RADIO CANBERRA

Country music icon Felicity Urquhart and member of The Waifs Josh Cunningham have won three shining Golden Guitars together, but they met in the darkest of moments. "Each of us had gone through heavy, difficult life circumstances," Josh said. Josh was in the echoes of a painful divorce. Felicity was grappling with the death of her children's father. She said the tragedy was like a tsunami hitting her family. "We were in this water trying to keep our heads above it, trying to keep breathing with two little girls, aged six and eight." But soon Felicity and Josh's lives merged via a Song Club, and armed with a baby banjo and double-bagged tea, the two took on the insurmountable together. "Having that beautiful human being next to you to nurture and support, made the worst time the best time as well," Josh said.

Sep 19, 2025