After years of performing in clubs and concert venues, you’d think Canadian folk singer Kathleen Edwards would have her live performance down to a science. On January 27, she sang the national anthem at the NHL All-Star Game, and everything she’d previously learned went out the window.
“It was the most foreign thing I could have possibly done,” Edwards says, speaking to Inside E from her home in Hamilton, Ontario “It’s terribly nerveracking because I chose to sing it without accompaniment. I stood naked in front of 20,000 people… I had some people post negative comments on my website,” she says, still sounding a little embarrassed be her performance. “Those people were expecting Celine Dion.”
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Appeared in Inside Entertainment’s March 2008 issue.
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Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, PROFIT, MoneySense and the Advisor Group. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and recently co-authored