Shy-Anne Hovorkaโs newest single, โFly Away,โ is as much a remembrance as it is a release. A celebrated multi-instrumentalist and humanitarian whose career has stretched across powwows, symphony halls, classrooms, and world stages, sheโs long been known for songs rooted in cultural reclamation, storytelling, and community healing. This track, released in memory of a close friend, marks a deeply personal turn. It comes after a career filled with accolades, multiple APCMAs, international airplay, and six albums that traverse folk, country, pop, and Indigenous musical traditions.
โFly Awayโ carries the artistโs heavy weight history even as it seems to begins softly, like someone opening a window in a quiet room. The guitar and piano sit lightly, steady and unobtrusive, giving her voice the space to lead. And her voice really does lead, in its warmth and richness, touched with that unmistakable vibrato that form at the ground of her voice that gives away her natural vocal expertise. Every line is placed gently, letting grief, memory, and release settle where they need to. When the backing vocals slip in, thereโs a soulful lift, like familiar hands placed on your shoulders when you need grounding.
The emotional center hits when she pushes her voice up into those high, soaring notes, with notes that are all about the act of letting go. The title helps you hear the flight. You hear the passing from ache to acceptance. She sings, โLocked in a tree, that wonโt let us go, itโs time to wake up and let you fly home,โ she sings of growth that comes through growing out of tangible bonds and allowing yourself to embrace the imminent.
โFly Awayโ is grief spoken softly, through the language of goodbyes said with love instead of collapse.
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Review by: Naomi Joan