Entertainment
18 October, 2024
Songbirds to lift the Tanks
FOLK-COUNTRY power couple Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham are coming to the Tanks Arts Centre with their sophomore album ‘Birdsong’ for an intimate and uplifting show this Sunday.
After a successful debut release in 2021 with ‘The Song Club’, Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham have taken their musical partnership to new heights with ‘Birdsong’, released last year, which earned them several Golden Guitar awards.
Now they’re coming to Cairns for the first time as a duo on Sunday, October 20 at Tank 5.
“We’ve both played Cairns before many times as solo artists but never together,” Ms Urquhart said.
“We’re playing songs from our albums ‘The Song Club’ and ‘Birdsong’ – our most recent album which picked up three Golden Guitar Awards – and we’re also throwing in some songs from our individual catalogues.”
“Birdsong is an album that we started forming during lockdown,” Mr Cunningham said.
“There’s a theme running through it about getting free, conquering the cage and finding your voice, so it feels like a worthy message to write songs about and it has really resonated with folks for the time that we’ve been playing these songs live.
“We also have our co-producer Matt Fell coming all the way from Tasmania for this gig, so we’re really looking forward to getting up to Cairns and playing it.”
The pair said they were excited to perform all their songs but especially the title track from the new album.
“Birdsong is a really special one from the album, it was inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb, it says – ‘Always keep a green branch in your heart so a singing bird may come’ – and I think you should always keep your heart open to the possibility of beauty and creativity,” Mr Cunningham said.
“But all of the songs have their own flavour and we can’t wait to bring them to Cairns.
“This is going to be a night out where you come out feeling good, we find that music is so powerful and connecting so we’re looking forward to performing, hearing people’s stories and seeing what happens after the show,” Ms Urquhart said.
To buy tickets, visit Ticketlink.
