Abbie Ferris

There’s no slowing Abbie Ferris down. Maybe it’s the childhood spent riding horses on her family farm in Mallala, South Australia (population 600) that has given her urge to keep pushing forward, but the Golden Guitar nominated singer-songwriter is set for another blockbuster year in 2025.

A Breakthrough Artist nomination at the inaugural Countrytown awards is the latest sign that Abbie is finding her moment. After a 2024 that included performances at festivals including CMC Rocks QLD and Groundwater, breaking onto the radio charts with ‘Shut Up and Kiss Me’ and following it up with the acclaimed ‘You Don’t Live Here Anymore’ EP and whirlwind trips to Nashville, where she performed during CMA Fest and created the music that has defined her sound.

Words of encouragement from Lainey Wilson “keep holding on to what makes you stand out” when she met the superstar after they shared the bill at CMC Rocks helped push Abbie to embrace her raucous, emotional, scrappy sound – raunchy guitars, propulsive drums, lyrics that tell her story from small-town farmgirl to traveling the world, finding strength after heartbreak and delivering it all with the smoky passion in her voice.

After kicking the year off with the massive KIX Live in the Park show at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, performing alongside James Johnston and Zac & George, Abbie flew back to Nashville for a marathon of writing and recording that will make it’s way to the public throughout 2025.