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The Chicks Will Return to Democratic National Convention to Sing National Anthem on Closing Night
The Chicks, formerly the Dixie Chicks, will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Democratic National Convention on closing night.
It’s becoming a tradition: The Chicks will sing “The Star Spangled Banner” on the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday evening, just as they did at the DNC four years ago. As widely applauded as that 2003 rendition was, their universal acclaim was to be short-lived, as it was just a few months after that that controversy erupted over a Natalie Maines remark about then-president George W. Bush and the Iraq war, deeply dividing their audience and prompting conservative boycotts. Variety further said of the 2020 DNC rendition, “Their performance made the anthem feel — maybe for one of the few times since it was codified into the American canon — like something was deeply at stake, besides whether or not the singer would blow it on the final notes.
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