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jayswin · 07-05-2015, 08:42 PM

It's a 2 minute gig at the beginning of each game, and yet fans expect top level talent to agree to complicate actual singing/touring careers, so they can be available 2 - 3 nights a week to drive to a hockey arena, sing a quick anthem and then leave.

The nature of singing/performing careers is that once you reach a decent level of talent/success you're on the road spreading your talent/voice. Which makes it a very awkward, tough position to fill for sports teams.

If anything we were super blessed with Heather Liscano. She had a very nice singing voice that was perfectly suited for anthem singing (don't make it your own, but still give it passion/feeling). But if you're looking to someone like Heather and stating "The Flames have never had anyone more than serviceable" I'd say your expectations of an anthem singer are way out of whack, especially in a medium sized city like Calgary.

I guess you could move to a mega city like New York, Boston or Chicago and get a top level anthem singer, but good lord that's some pretty hefty expectations you're putting on a 1.3mil population city in the Canadian prairies, and just isn't realistic relative to the industry you're talking about.

07-05-2015, 08:42 PM	#308
jayswin Celebrated Square Root Day Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	It's a 2 minute gig at the beginning of each game, and yet fans expect top level talent to agree to complicate actual singing/touring careers, so they can be available 2 - 3 nights a week to drive to a hockey arena, sing a quick anthem and then leave. The nature of singing/performing careers is that once you reach a decent level of talent/success you're on the road spreading your talent/voice. Which makes it a very awkward, tough position to fill for sports teams. If anything we were super blessed with Heather Liscano. She had a very nice singing voice that was perfectly suited for anthem singing (don't make it your own, but still give it passion/feeling). But if you're looking to someone like Heather and stating "The Flames have never had anyone more than serviceable" I'd say your expectations of an anthem singer are way out of whack, especially in a medium sized city like Calgary. I guess you could move to a mega city like New York, Boston or Chicago and get a top level anthem singer, but good lord that's some pretty hefty expectations you're putting on a 1.3mil population city in the Canadian prairies, and just isn't realistic relative to the industry you're talking about. Last edited by jayswin; 07-05-2015 at 08:45 PM.