Kate Ceberano Australian Made Encore Tour
- Written by: Times Media
There are not many Australian singers who can look back at four decades of chart-topping music and remember not just the songs, but the rooms they were written in and the people who made them.
Kate Ceberano is one of them.
This Sunday, she will hit the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall stage with the Australian Made Encore Tour, a 30-date national run that has already proved the enduring appetite for the songs, stories and musical characters that have shaped her extraordinary career.
Ceberano will perform at Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul on Friday October 9 and The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre on Saturday October 10, before arriving at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Sunday October 11 for the culmination of her first run of NSW shows.
For the Sydney and later Melbourne shows, Ceberano will be joined by multi-award-winning artist Fanny Lumsden, adding another distinctive voice to an already formidable Australian Made line-up
"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 now I’ve had the absolute pleasure of inviting my friend and beloved country artist Fanny Lumsden to come join me at the Sydney Opera House and Hamer Hall shows. 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 a warble with her," said Ceberano.
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."
Ceberano is also excited to share the stage with her daughter Gypsy Lee who is forging her own path in the music industry, celebrating the Sydney launch of her EP this week.
“Three generations of women joining me on stage at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Hamer Hall for a big jam will be epic. Fanny Lumsden, Gypsy Lee and the Australian Made mainstays Kathleen Halloran and Dusty Stephenson (lucky bloke!). I love this and can’t wait for you to hear all these artists this weekend,” said Kate Ceberano.
“To get to stand on stage with two powerhouse performers who are two of the coolest artists in Australia is truly such an honour. I couldn’t be more excited!,” added Gyspy Lee.
The Encore tour follows the remarkable success of Ceberano’s 2025 Australian Made shows, which sold out nationally and produced a charting 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 week in regional NSW.”
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.
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2026 Australian Made Tour Dates
SEPTEMBER
Friday 04 Astor Theatre, Perth WA
Saturday 05 Boardwalk Theatre, Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, WA
Sunday 06 Heart, Margaret River, WA
Friday 11 MECC, Mackay, Qld
Saturday 12 GECC Theatre, Gladstone, Qld
Sunday 13 Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton, Qld
Friday 25 CPAC, Cairns, Qld
Saturday 26 The Warehouse, Townsville, Qld
OCTOBER
Friday 02 Civic Centre, Orange, NSW
Saturday 03 TRECC Town Hall, Tamworth, NSW
Sunday 04 The Art House Theatre, Wyong, NSW
Friday 09 Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul, NSW
Saturday 10 The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, ACT
Sunday 11 Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, NSW
Saturday 17 Toronto Hotel, Toronto, NSW
Sunday 18 The Regent, Richmond, VIC
Friday 23 Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Vic
Saturday 24 Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, Vic
Sunday 25 - Rock the Boat
Wednesday 28
Friday 30 West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, Vic
October 31 Costa Hall, Geelong, Vic
NOVEMBER
Sunday 01 Lighthouse Theatre, Warrnambool, Vic
Thursday 05 Northern Festival Centre, Port Pirie, SA
Friday 06 Chaffey Theatre, Renmark, SA
Saturday 07 Her Majesty’s, Adelaide, SA
Friday 13 Twin Towns, Tweed Heads, NSW
Saturday 14 QPAC Brisbane, Qld
Sunday 15 The Events Centre, Caloundra, Qld
Thursday 19 Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat, Vic
Friday 20 Riverlinks Eastbank, Shepparton, Vic
IAN LAIDLAW PIC CREDIT:
The tour is presented by Premier Artists / Rogers & Ceberano – W: premierartists.com.au
