We sing the national anthem at a lot of local sporting events. Last Saturday, we performed at the hockey game between St. Norbert College and Hamline University. It was our 32nd anthem performance (since 2000), and our 9th since Kelly joined us in August. We’ve only done St. Norbert College a few times, and it’s always special for a couple of reasons.

First, I work at St. Norbert, so it’s cool to see a bunch of folks that I know. More importantly though, it’s the only game we do where we also sing “O Canada“. At first this seems strange, because neither team is from Canada. However, of the 28 guys on St. Norbert’s hockey team this season, 20 are from Canada!

“O Canada” is a beautiful song, and our arrangement has some great harmonies. This year, we added some French lyrics (in place of a couple of English phrases) and we got a lot of nice comments about it.
St. Norbert College is ranked #2 in the nation right now in Division III hockey, and their games always provide some good, hard-hitting action. I look forward to doing it again soon.

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