Ten years after Christina Grimmie was shot and killed while signing autographs after an Orlando concert, her family is choosing commemoration over shorthand. The Christina Grimmie Foundation has set a month of June 2026 events to mark the anniversary, with a documentary, a benefit concert and Grimmie Fest all built around the singer-songwriter the family says should be remembered for her life and art.
Bud Grimmie said the milestone lands with an odd kind of force: it has been long enough to feel like a lifetime, but close enough to hurt like it happened yesterday. He said the family is not simply remembering her; it is carrying her forward, which is the point of the June schedule now taking shape. Christina Grimmie, who died at 22, had become known as a YouTube phenomenon and a finalist on The Voice, and the public response to her death made clear how widely she had been followed well beyond one concert crowd.
The most visible piece of the anniversary will be a 30-minute documentary, CHRISTINA GRIMMIE: HER VOICE AND LEGACY A DECADE LATER, set to premiere June 10 on her YouTube channel. It was directed by Chris Grant Jr. and produced by The GLMG Production Company with ZXL Music. The foundation is also planning Grimmie Fest from June 5 to June 7 in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area, turning the remembrance into a weekend of events rather than a single tribute.
That festival includes a trivia night, a gallery of personal items, fashion pieces and career highlights, plus a trip to Ocean City, one of Grimmie’s favorite New Jersey spots. The Living Tombstone will perform a benefit concert for the foundation at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia on June 6 at 8 p.m. The foundation said its 10 for TEN campaign will ask fans to donate $10 and share a favorite Christina memory, keeping the anniversary centered on participation rather than passive mourning.
The family’s insistence on memory over tragedy has been a thread since the beginning. Albert Grimmie said he wants Christina to be remembered for the person and artist she was, not just for the violence that ended her life. That matters because the killing itself is still the fact that shadows every tribute: she was shot once in the head and three times in the torso as she signed autographs, and her brother Marcus wrestled the shooter to the ground at the Orlando concert. Marcus later described his sister as his little sister, his best friend, and the most fearless person he had ever known, saying she did not just sing for fans, she sang with them.
The anniversary month also reaches into public policy. In Trenton, the New Jersey Senate is set to vote on bipartisan legislation that would designate June 10 as Christina Grimmie Day across the state. The foundation has said it has provided unrestricted grants totaling $600,000 to more than 300 families affected by gun violence, tying the remembrance of one loss to a broader response to others. Tina Grimmie, Christina’s mother, died in 2018 of breast cancer, leaving Bud and Marcus as the most visible voices around this year’s observance.
What happens next is already on the calendar. Grimmie Fest opens June 5, The Living Tombstone plays June 6, the documentary lands June 10, and the Senate vote in New Jersey could give the anniversary a permanent place on the state’s calendar. For the family, the question is no longer whether Christina Grimmie will be remembered. It is how far that remembrance can be carried beyond the day she died.
