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Noah Kahan is ringing in the new year and celebrating his birthday.
With a year of “change” in mind, Kahan, 29, posted on Instagram on Thursday, January 1, a photo of herself drinking a glass of champagne while watching the sunset in the distance and showing off her wedding ring.
“Twenty-eight is a time of change and adaptation and understanding and growth, of moving on and trying to move on, of coming to terms and acceptance, of being filled with gratitude, of wondering why this happened to you, of feeling left out of what was important to you, of feeling like it’s never ending.” Whether it was trying to find the bottom of a dirty landfill, being proud of the little guy, taking it all in, never turning away from the windshield when you were scared of the road or God in front of you. I hope the 29-year-old can teach you even half of that,” the Stick Season musician wrote. caption.
Kahan later reposted a series of posts on her Instagram Stories wishing her a happy birthday from friends. In another Instagram Story post, Kahan shared a photo of herself in a fluffy purple jacket preparing to blow out the candles on a blue and green birthday cake.
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“Thank you Brenna for my cake, I love you,” he wrote in a nod to his wife Brenna Nolan, whom he married in August 2025, PEOPLE has confirmed. “I’m incredibly grateful to you all,” he wrote in a follow-up selfie he shared to his Instagram Story.
The couple married in August in an “intimate ceremony” in their home state of Vermont, a representative tells PEOPLE.
The folk-pop singer shot to fame in 2022 with the viral hit of her single “Stick Season.” The subsequent album of the same name was a meditation on small New England towns and a love letter to the people who lived there. Kahan has since collaborated with Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Brandi Carlyle, Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Kelsea Ballerini, and more.
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The birthday celebration comes shortly after Keihan began teasing a new album on social media.
Kahan created a TikTok account in early December with the username @thelastofthebugs, a reference to the lyrics of his song “The View Between Villages.” On the account, he shared a snippet of a banjo-centric song on December 15, 2025, and on January 1, he wrote a handwritten letter in a TikTok post in which he wrote that he felt like he would be “coming out of hibernation” in 2026.
