Grace Potter will sing the national anthem at the 2025 Kentucky Derby. See who performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" in past ...

Grace Potter wowed with an a cappella rendition of the United States national anthem at the 2025 Kentucky Derby on Saturday, ...

opening the show with "Ameriican Requiem" before serenading the crowd with her Beatles cover "Blackbiird" and the Star Spangled Banner. Then she kicked the energy up a notch with her anthem ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

Terry Winter's notebook-collage is based on a 1914 photograph of two women at the Smithsonian working to restore the Star-Spangled Banner in a room with a model of a giant squid. Terry Winters ...