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 powering through another blockbuster year in 2026.

In the past year, Abbie has gone from milestone to milestone – CMC Rocks to CMA Fest, CMAA to Countrytown award nominations, and touring with Kingswood, the Wolfe Brothers and international stars Chase Matthew and Austin Williams.

The winking honky tonk gem ‘Bored’ is the first taste of Abbie’s new music since her Top 20 ARIA Australian Country charting EP ‘Stockman’s Daughter’, and sees Abbie at her most assured and vibrant. The tongue-in-cheek tune charts a particularly modern love story. Produced by longtime collaborators CMAA-nominee Michael Carpenter and ARIA-nominee Jeremy Dylan, the track features country icon Brent Mason on guitar (who has played on more country #1 singles than anyone in history).

“I feel like I’ve come so far but I’ve got so many dreams still to chase”, she says. “I’m a stockman’s daughter, I know how to work hard and keep my feet on the ground, but I’ve also got my head in the sky and I never want to stop trying to take all of this to the next level.”

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.

“I want my music to make people feel powerful, to help them heal from heartbreak, to be a woman young girls can look up to as someone making a path for themselves in a crazy world,” she says. “I want the energy I feel from the crowd when I’m up there on stage to come back to those people through my records, and I never want to stop trying to take all of this to the next level”.