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Keith Urban honoured at 53rd Golden Guitar Awards as Tamworth Country Music Festival wraps up
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/25/2025
The Tamworth Country Music Festival is drawing to a close, but not without plenty of glitz and glamour. Superstar Keith Urban was given a major honour at last night’s 53rd Golden Guitar Awards. Our reporter Caitlin Furlong was there.
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Well, the 2025 Golden Guitar Awards have been run and won. I'm here with female artist of
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the year, two-time Golden Guitar winner, host extraordinaire Max Jackson. Congratulations,
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Max, for you tonight.
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Oh, thank you so much. It's a very surreal feeling right now because I think I'm still
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running the script of hosting in my mind at the same time.
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It's been an incredible ride for you. You were the star maker in 2022, now just three
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years later, you're here, adding more Golden Guitars to you. Can you believe how quickly
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this has all happened?
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Honestly, as a kid who just grew up listening to country music, being from a country town
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myself, Canamble, and I pinch myself every single time something like this happens. Obviously,
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this is the biggest thing to happen in my career to win single of the year and female
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artist of the year alongside people who've just inspired me for my entire career. I really
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do pinch myself and I don't think this is going to sink in for at least a couple of
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days.
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And of course, we saw Keith Urban inducted into the role of Renown. Incredible moment.
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I know. So I performed right and I walked up and my husband was playing guitar and he
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said to me, did you see Keith in the front row? And I said, I'm so glad I did it because
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I would have got so nervous. And it was obviously just incredible to have Keith in the room
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and obviously such a worthy recipient of that role of Renown.
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And Troy Cassidaly taking out five awards. Incredible.
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Troy is just the nicest person that you've ever met. And I think, you know, everyone
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can feel that from him when he's on stage. And he said up there that he doesn't like
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public speaking, but I think that he should start a podcast and just public speak all
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the time so that we can all feel that heart. And, you know, his words are always amazing.
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So big congrats to Troy Cassidaly.
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Congratulations to you too. Thank you for chatting with us and best of luck for what's
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next.
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And yeah, that's the end of the Golden Guitars for this year, but 2026 will probably be bigger
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and better than ever, I'm sure.
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