As a tribute to the enduring and expanding popularity and critical acclaim that continues to be devoted worldwide to Jeff Buckley more than a decade after his death, “Grace Around The World” - to be issued on June 2nd in two separate multi-disc packages - provides the most comprehensive and exciting musical portrait of the artist seen to date. The new package celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Buckley’s “Grace.”

Executive produced by Mary Guibert (Buckley’s mother), “Grace Around The World” focuses on previously unreleased live performances circa 1994-95, in concert and television locales ranging from the US and UK, to Germany, Japan and France (where Buckley was the #1 best-selling international catalog artist in 2008). Accompanying the 108-minute “Grace Around The World” DVD will be an audio CD counterpart.

A special limited-edition deluxe package of “Grace Around The World” will also contain the one-hour documentary DVD, “Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley,” thus totaling 169 minutes of Jeff Buckley footage for his fans. In advance of this summer’s 15th anniversary of the release of “Grace,” Buckley’s landmark debut album (August 1994), the two “Grace Around The World” packages will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting June 2nd through Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

There are three components to the deluxe “Grace Around The World” package.

First there is the DVD, “Grace Around The World,” bearing witness to the fact that Buckley onstage was a transcendent force. In a unique concept, the main program of this DVD presents previously unreleased distinct versions of the songs from the Grace album, culled from a variety of television sources. These include 1994 US shows at Howlin Wolf in New Orleans (”Dream Brother”) and the JBTV performance in Chicago (”Lover You Should Have Come Over,” the only previously released clip). The balance of the songs all date from 1995: the BBC’s Late Show in London (”Grace”); the tv show Live Aus Dem Sudbahnhof in Frankfurt, Germany (”So Real,” “Mojo Pin,” “What Will You Say”); MTV Japan (”Hallelujah”); MTV’s Most Wanted in London (”Eternal Life,” “Last Goodbye”); and MTV Europe’s coverage of the Eurokeenes Festival in Belfort, France (”Lilac Wine”).

(Note: Buckley’s rarely-performed Qawwali-influenced “What Will You Say” appears instead of Grace’s Benjamin Britten adaptation of “Corpus Christi Carol,” which Buckley did not perform on-tour.)

The “Grace Around The World” DVD includes 33 minutes of bonus features. These begin with three songs performed in New York for MTV’s 120 Minutes (”Grace,” “So Real,” “Last Goodbye”), then “Vancouver” (from MTV’s Most Wanted in London), and conclude with the original music video for “Hallelujah” (directed by Ernie Fritz). In between are behind-the-scenes on-the-road segments for VH1’s Naked Café, and the Merri Cyr bus interview.