After kicking off her 2026 Australian Made Encore tour with shows in Far North Queensland last month, Kate Ceberano then headed South on her 30-date national tour – and next week she is coming back to the Sunshine State with three blockbuster shows in South East Queensland in November as the sold-out tour draws to a close.
Ceberano has announced today that multi-award-winning artist Fanny Lumsden will join her at these Queensland shows, adding another distinctive voice to an already formidable Australian Made line-up
It will be a lucky Friday the 13th when Ceberano brings the songs and stories of musical legends that have shaped her extraordinary career to the Twin Towns, Tweed Heads stage on November 13 before backing up at QPAC in Brisbane on Saturday November 14 and then rounding out the weekend with a Sunday November 15 show at the Events Centre in Caloundra.
The shows are set to be a heartfelt pre-birthday celebration including other special guests, falling just days before Ceberano celebrates her 60th Birthday on November 17.
Of the shows and Fanny joining her in Queensland Kate Ceberano says, “There is something super beautiful happening on this encore tour. Australian Made is an opportunity for me to create love letters for my favourite singer songwriters and touchstones throughout my career. And as a special birthday gift to myself I’ve invited my friend and beloved country artist Fanny Lumsden to join me for my Queensland gigs. We had such fun at the Sydney Opera House show, and she’s joining me in Melbourne as well, that I wanted Queensland to also share in the magic. She’s got more than a few gongs under her belt, but more than that she is an awesome person full of love. I can’t wait to have another warble with her.”
Of her call up to the Australian Made line-up Fanny Lumsden said, “I got the (best) shock of my life when Kate asked me to come and be a guest at her incredible shows. She’s such an inspiring force of nature, I just love the way she creates and shares that joy with everyone. They are going to be very special shows.”
The Encore tour follows the remarkable success of Ceberano’s 2025 Australian Made shows, which sold out nationally and produced a ARIA Top 10 live album.
Rather than simply repeat that success, Ceberano has treated the encore run this year as an opportunity to pull the material apart and add to it.
In 1986, she was part of the original Australian Made, a landmark national tour that put some of the country’s biggest musical acts – INXS, Jimmy Barnes and Divinyls among them – on the same bill and helped chart Australian music’s rise from pub circuit staple to international cultural export.
Four decades later, the 2026 ARIA Hall of Fame inducted Ceberano is approaching the same idea from a different vantage point: as both participant and witness.
Her concerts are part performance, part oral history – a vivid account of Australian music delivered by someone who remembers what it felt like to be inside it.
“Last year was an unexpected runaway success,” Ceberano says. “It ended up being the biggest rock move of my career. Coming back to do it again, and push it further, felt irresistible.”
The result is a show that moves freely between Australian pop and rock history and Ceberano’s own musical autobiography, with reworked classics and expanded arrangements.
“It’s the same engine, but a different gear,” she says.
“The setlist’s been reworked, stretched and opened up. More stories. More Australian classics, old and new, and more room to live inside the songs.
“We had an incredible response in WA and Qld to the first shows of the tour last month and then this month in NSW including the Sydney Opera House.”
Ceberano is joined once again by multi-instrumentalist Kathleen Halloran and blues-rock powerhouse Dusty Lee Stephensen, with the trio bringing a magnetic energy to the stage.
As part of the show Ceberano moves from piano to drums to voice and back again, punctuating performances with recollections of some of the country’s most celebrated musicians.
And while her 60th birthday falls during the final week of the Australian Made encore tour, Ceberano is resisting any temptation to turn the milestone into the story.
“Turning 60 isn’t the headline – the work is,” she says.
“I feel strong, empowered and creatively fired up. Being on stage, meeting audiences, feeling that connection… that’s what drives this tour forward.”
With 30 performances across five states, the 2026 Kate Ceberano – Australian Made Encore Tour continues a remarkable chapter in one of Australian music’s most enduring careers.
Tickets for the 2026 Australian Made Encore Tour are on sale via kateceberano.com.
