The Canberra Critics’ Circle has named Luminescence Chamber Singers’ performance of Andrew Ford’s Red Dirt Hymns as its music highlight of 2024. During the Canberra International Music festival, Luminescence, together with cellist Freya Schack-Arnott and electric guitarist Hilary Geddes, sang 16 of the hymns to a capacity audience in the atrium of the National Museum of Australia. Writing in the Canberra City News, Sarah Byrne called it ‘one of the most purely enjoyable hours of music it’s been my pleasure to experience’.