Just announced: The Lumineers to bring their 20th anniversary world tour to Australia

• The Lumineers Sydney 2026: American folk-rock duo have announced Australian and New Zealand show dates
• Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites will bring their Automatic world tour to five major Australian cities
• Famed for their 2012 hit Ho Hey!, they last performed in Australia in 2022
• READ MORE: Upcoming concerts & music events in Sydney 2025

Cast your minds back to 2012, when the infectious folky sounds of Ho Hey! burst onto airwaves and wormed its way into every playlist (or was that just us?). It catapulted the American duo, The Lumineers, into global fame and earned them the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 and went gold here in Australia.

More than a decade later, they’re touring the world with their latest album Automatic — and this morning, it’s been announced that The Lumineers will bring their foot-stomping magic back to Australia and New Zealand. Their long-awaited return will kick off the new year perfectly in January 2026.

20 years of The Lumineers

Lead singer Wesley Schultz and percussionist and pianist, Jeremiah Fraites, may have won global recognition in 2012 but they’d been collaborating long before then. Playing gigs around New York in the early 2000s, they performed under various names including Free Beer and Wesley Jeremiah.

So where did The Lumineers come from? Firstly, in case you’re wondering what it means: “It doesn’t mean anything literally. It’s a made-up word,” Schultz explained to People.

Automatic World Tour

Since releasing their fifth studio album Automatic on February 14, 2025, The Lumineers have been lighting up stages across North America and Europe. Sydney fans haven’t had the joy of a full headline show since their Brightside album tour in November 2022. Even better? This marks not only a major return to our shores, but their first headline tour stop in New Zealand, too.

They will perform in Sydney on Friday, 16 January 2026, following shows in Christchurch, Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane, before heading to Adelaide and Perth.

So far on the tour, the average set list looks like this:

1. Same Old Song
2. Flowers in Your Hair
3. Angela
4. You’re All I Got
5. A.M. RADIO
6. Asshole
7. Gun Song
8. Plasticine
9. Donna
10. Ho Hey
11. Charlie Boy
12. Dead Sea
13. BRIGHTSIDE
14. Sleep on the Floor
15. Gloria
16. WHERE WE ARE
17. Slow It Down
18. Strings
19. Automatic
20. Salt and the Sea
21. Ophelia
22. Big Parade
23. Leader of the Landslide
24. REPRISE
25. Cleopatra
26. Stubborn Love

Warm up your vocals, remind yourself of the old hits and memorise the new lyrics. It’ll be an awesome start to the new year.

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The Lumineers Sydney 2026

When: Friday, January 16, 2026.
Where: Qudos Bank Arena
Tickets: Member pre-sales begin from Thursday, August 14, 2025. General sale begins on Friday, August 15 at 12pm (local time). Ticket prices are:

Find out more at frontiertouring.com