Songs of Remembering confronts injustice, holds space for grief, and explores how a community carries a story forward through song.
Album of the Year
Best Choral Performance
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: "No More!" from Running From, Running To: A Musical Reflection on Ahmaud Arbery (Alexander Lloyd Blake, Ogi, and Antonio Fernandez)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: John Chapman
Producer of the Year, Classical: Joseph Trapanese
"a dignified act of remembrance, pain and anger … touching and done with a clear sense of love." BBC Music Magazine
Songs of Remembering features Tonality and Wild Up with Angel Blue, Jamal M. Moore, and Ogi. The centerpiece, Running From, Running To, honors Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man whose 2020 killing while jogging sparked national outcry. With new arrangements of "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and the world-premiere recording of "Deep River," the album calls for justice, healing, and resilience through song.
Official FYC page from Bright Shiny Things (full album stream and digital booklet)
