The Ultimate Nation Anthem - KMEA All-State Choir 2022

The KMEA All-State Choir sings the Star Spangled Banner every year during the time they stay at the Hyatt Hotel in Louisville Kentucky. This is a recording of the most recent singing of the anthem.

[@hackptui]

Please don't ever let this tradition die.

[@nemochicky4697]

THIS is what we need to perform the Star Spangled Banner at the super bowl

[@cruisebumify]

Agree. I hate solos...celebrities singing their style which is sometimes so bad. I rather hear it from a great choir like the Kentucky or a marching or military band.

[@LifeOfLauraUK]

Goosebumps. Every year. Without fail.

[@jamesbranaman8090]

This should just be titled, "There is Hope for our Kids", What a great tradition !!

[@TxTrouble]

Here I am, aged 47 and misty eyed listening to this. I hope to make it in person next year. I can only imagine that tears will be rolling down my cheeks. Excellent job, ladies and gentlemen.

[@miker.2540]

I'm getting the feeling it may not be that easy to see this in person next year.

[@rickfranklin5116]

Age 70 here. Same.

[@oliviakeever4421]

What a beautiful tradition!!!! 🥲 I haven't heard an anthem better than the USA's!!! 🇺🇸 BEAUTIFUL, INCREDIBLE JOB to the Kentucky All-State Choir!!!! 🥲👌 You brought tears to my eyes!!! 🥲

[@cruisebumify]

I rather hear the National Anthem by a great choir like Kentucky's or a marching or military band. I do not like solos or from some celebrity. They ruin a good song like the N.A.

[@strongereveryday2302]

I'm going to make it a tradition to be there every year from now until the end of my life on this planet.

[@r6343]

I heard a recording of this event a few years back. I would love to be there in person. Amazingly beautiful.

[@ldsutton]

Ditto

[@jerryferko8309]

OUTSTANDING !!!!!!! thank u generalK T ........... watching student bodies at high school football and hoop games ......... over the years .....they should see this ......

[@gageemmins3156]

bro my core was shivering

[@charlesgrisham3816]

Amazing. Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith would be very proud.

[@grimshadow8845]

Yo my room was like directly above this on floor 4. An awesome experience. A shame we didn't get to have it last year, and a shame I won't get to do it again (at least if I graduate, lol). There were a lot of talented people there this year, and every year. Hope everyone had a great time and moves on to great things.

[@The_Digital_Arts_World]

Incredibly beautiful, not only to listen to; but, to see all of the young people that are pouring their hearts into the National Anthem with pride as well as faith and belief. These things are hard to find anymore with disrespectful people using their status and/or popularity to “taking the knee” at public events, refusing to salute, sitting on the bench or just plain ignoring it all.

[@katego370]

They are so legendary that the hotel coordinates their SFX lighting to it!

[@fmervick1]

I'd love to witness this in person one day.

[@Kaya084]

I absolutely love this. It’s just so angelic. Hands down my favorite rendition. And while I can listen to all the years back to back, over and over, I have to say this year is probably the best (again, no matter the year, it sounds amazing).

[@singingg10]

So happy to say I was there!!! Had such a tremendous time!!! 💖

[@BraddahBruce]

This is an awesome reminder that we are not as divided as politicians and the main stream media makes us out to be. I look forward to this tradition and pray it will continue forever. 🇺🇲❤🤍💙🇺🇲

[@TBNTX]

Outstanding. Just lovely.

[@kimstahlman6740]

Beautifull!❤

[@EKo32404]

I was a student that made it to this year's all state and I was Tenor 1 and I will say this was one of favorite things I did for my senior year. We sang so hard that week but this was song that had my heart!!!

[@strongereveryday2302]

Well done young man. Well done.🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@cherylamundson3268]

so very sweet

[@paradiserelaxation6081]

Please, let me know the date for 2023, I will be there just to hear you. God Bless you from Canada

[@flagwaver7650]

So beautiful!

[@ardantaker8367]

this is so beautiful

[@ProfessorNewollah]

Perfection!

[@sarahgrace4995]

i was on floor 16!! where are my SATB soprano 2 peeps??

[@parkerphillips1217]

8th floor representative here!

[@jackboy317]

THEY SANG IT PERFECTLY!

[@bigoz-fybb]

I was on floor 6!!!

[@williamdavidnew4719]

All sporting events should insist that people performing the national anthem sing it exactly like it is written and get off the individual attention getting changes they make. It dishonors the anthem. Well done choir, well done.

[@jonathandevers6609]

I was here :) Surreal Too bad me and my friends had to sprint half a mile down a rainy street to get back before curfew but it was well worth it

[@Olivia-sv1ls]

I was there

[@larrywhorley9440]

This is the best one. Previous years were just too slow.

[@tracywilson1356]

I would love to know where this hotel is and when you can find these choirs singing there. To experience something like this in person just once would be wondrous.

[@generalkt5398]

In the description

[@matthewcarlon7122]

Please no hate but I really liked the one from 2019 kentucky all state choir on Ben Vivino channel.....it was just perfect....for me anyhow.....please everyone to check it out and let me know what you thought as well.

[@midnighteyesx]

2013 reigns supreme for me

[@coltonferrell6651]

Woooooo I was there

[@laylamakaylakk1219]

I was there 17th floor

[@laylamakaylakk1219]

Hey I was there 17th floor.

[@Sarah-ys3vc]

It’s crazy I was singling in that

[@ritastockmar9467]

❤

[@christophermccord3316]

Damn those that film vertically....

[@generalkt5398]

If you’d like to see a horizontal view with a much more cinematic mood, CBS Evening News did a story over the event and recorded the whole thing

[@nashlawhon5915]

For people Wondering, the KMEA rents out the entire hotel so normal guests unfortunately don’t get to see it

[@Jerseysson27]

Congratulations on being seen on cbs news btw

[@bigoz-fybb]

Im the baritone to the barbershop quartet that sung!!!!!

[@sarahgrace4995]

SHUT UP!! you all were so good!!

[@generalkt5398]

No way! Fantastic job!

[@bigoz-fybb]

@@sarahgrace4995 Thank ya!

[@bigoz-fybb]

@@generalkt5398 Thank Ya!

[@keitaalston3757]

0:03 0:09 0:28 0:36 0:59 1:19 1:28 1:39 1:50 1:57

[@airelmusic4752]

2:02 Of the brave

[@josiahguthrie5797]

Sing all 4 verses next year! For those of you who don't know the other 3 verses, here they are: O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, 'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation! Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here is a video of retired Marine Lewis Shaffer singing Our National Anthem in its entirety. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3m7nGVnoKl_r9U

[@bluebisket]

This isn't Ben Vivona... wheres Ben?

[@josiahguthrie5797]

Everyone knows where and why this takes place, but no one knows when. When exactly (date) does this take place?

[@generalkt5398]

It takes place at then Hyatt Hotel in Louisville Kentucky, usually sometime in mid-February, dates vary.

[@LiterallyMe2022]

'merica

[@Ship2ShoreLife]

colin kaepernick is kneeling somewhere…

[@charlesgrisham3816]

Might want to listen more closely to the words of the Anthem, "Land of the free." Free to stand, free to kneel, or as many wonderful 'Merkins do: text, read your texts, chew your gum, don't take off your hat, don't stand, go to get a Hot Dog from the Concession/Hot Dog Stand, talk to anyone and everyone, don't put their hands over their hearts. Should I go on Fredeezee? I think you might get the picture. Maybe not, but just might. Make Kaepernick a villain, but say nothing to thousands who disrespect the Anthem and the Flag by doing those things I listed above. Take care, respect the Flag and the Anthem and the next time you're at a game, go over and say something to those people who show their disrespect.

[@Spamandrice]

@@charlesgrisham3816 hey everyone, I found the internet warrior

[@CodaMission]

Shame on you to call yourself American. Kaepernick was sitting on the bench because he felt standing was contrary to the recognition of political and social injustices against black americans. That is a righteous, patriotic cause if ever their was one, and hey, you all said nothing then. Not a goddamn word from any of you morality police, only his colleague, a veteran, who suggests he might show respect to veterans, widely considered representative of duty to others, courage in the face of obstacles, and frequent leveler of all Americans: relatable to many black Americans anyway. So now Kaepernick kneels. The authority of the US? Harsh to the black community. The veterans, for service and duty, even unto the black community? They get the respect.

[@Spamandrice]

@@CodaMission thank you for taking the time to come up with this long winded reply

[@CodaMission]

@@Spamandrice always take the time to condemn closet racists