Contemporary sacred music · Choral · Album · July 31, 2026
Drawn Back to the Table
A nine-song Passion–Resurrection album framed by the Road to Emmaus and shaped through years of collaborative work.
A journey through memory, loss, recognition, and return.
Released in 2026, Drawn Back to the Table brought J.J. Wright together with the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir for nine songs retelling the Passion and Resurrection through the frame of the Road to Emmaus.
The work grew through a long collaborative process in which students brought Scripture into conversation with lived experience, then developed the music with the full Choir and a group of collaborating artists.
The sequence passes through remembrance, loss, doubt, recognition, shared food, and response. Recorded at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles and at the University of Notre Dame, the album was released by Notre Dame Records.
People and credits
- Artists
- The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir · J.J. Wright
- J.J. Wright
- Composer · Album artist
- Choir
- The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir
- Guitars
- Franky Rousseau
- Keyboards
- Dominic Mekky
- Strings
- Rob Moose
- Bass
- Ike Sturm
- Drums
- Arthur Hnatek and Jay Rudolph
- Music
- J.J. Wright
- Libretto and lyrics
- Tristan Cooley
- Additional music
- Franky Rousseau, Ike Sturm, and members of the University of Notre Dame Folk Choir
- Producer
- Franky Rousseau
- Co-producer, arrangements, orchestrations
- Dominic Mekky
- Session and mix engineer
- Dana Nielsen
- Mixing and mastering
- Blake La Grange and Robert Friedrich
- Artwork and lyric videos
- Maddy Sturm
- Label
- Notre Dame Records
Track list
- 01Memory (feat. Erin Shea Hogan)2:25
- 02Bethany (feat. Emorja Roberson)2:13
- 03I Will Go (feat. Marie Miller)2:40
- 04Drawn Back to the Table (feat. Chanda Rule)3:02
- 05Veronica (feat. Emma Frank)2:05
- 06Beside My Shepherd Again (feat. Sarah Kroger)2:32
- 07Could I Believe? (feat. John Finch)2:33
- 08Mary’s Song (feat. Danielle Rose)3:36
- 09Send for the Raven (feat. Dave Edwards)2:43