SPRINGFIELD — Two years after winning a Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album, Springfield native Carla Patullo is up for a second nomination in the same category.

Her nominated album, “NOMADICA,” released in August, is a musical journey through grief and healing. Across nine tracks, Patullo revisits the untimely passing of her mother in a car accident in 2004. Also featured on the album are the Grammy-winning ensembles Tonality and the Scorchio Quartet.

“I was struggling with the shock of my mother’s death, and with the fear of my own,” Patullo, a cancer survivor, said in a statement. “On the hardest days, I sat in front of a microphone and sang. Little by little, I began feeling glimmers of light from her. And so, I decided to go where I was too scared to go before; I let m

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