Emily Wurramara Creates ARIA History, Sets ‘NARA’ Encore Tour

Emily Wurramara, Australia’s first Indigenous female artist to win Best Adult Contemporary Album at the ARIA Awards has announced a special encore tour for 2025.

Wurramara is a proud Warnindhilyagwa woman who will revive live performances of her acclaimed second album NARA from August.

“It was when I had nothing, that I realised I had everything,” she said of NARA. The title is an Anindilyakwa word meaning “nothing”, which Wurramara has tattooed on her arm.

It was a significant time for Wurramara, who had a daughter, lost her house in a fire, and traversed moving from Brisbane to Tasmania.

“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,” reads a statement issued Friday, December 13th from ARIA. “Huge, well-deserved congratulations to Emily and all involved in this incredible album and historic achievement.”

NARA was also nominated for ARIA’s Best Independent Release and considered for the Australian Music Prize. She had multiple sell-out stops on her previous tour of the album which began this August.

Next year, Wurramara will tour across Australia, commencing in Melbourne for three dates in Victoria, before hitting Echuca, Perth, Adelaide, and more. For her anticipated first stop in Melbourne, a full band will be joining her.