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 web and print writer, editor and blogger working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, writes Metro Canada's weekly Audio Files music column and shares personal finance tips on Rogers TV's Daytime Toronto. He's also written for Maclean's, MoneySense, PROFIT, Chatelaine, Hello Canada, MSN Tech, Yahoo Finance and the National Post. He was recently nominated for five National Magazine Awards, winning one in an online category.
