{"id":688366,"date":"2026-05-22T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688366\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:59:08","slug":"hurricanes-anthem-singer-touched-by-praise-for-bilingual-o-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688366\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes anthem singer touched by praise for bilingual &#8216;O Canada&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer who performed a bilingual version of &#8220;O Canada&#8221; in North Carolina ahead of the Hurricanes-Canadiens NHL playoff game on Thursday says he&#8217;s surprised and honoured by the praise he&#8217;s getting.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Greer chose to sing Canada&#8217;s national anthem in both official languages, instead of the English-only version that&#8217;s usually heard everywhere outside of Montreal and Ottawa games.<\/p>\n<p>Greer told The Canadian Press that his name has been trending on social media and he&#8217;s received a flood of positive comments for his choice to sing in French.<\/p>\n<p>He says some of the messages are in French, and he answers with a thank you because he can&#8217;t speak the language.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old student has been singing &#8220;O Canada&#8221; at the Hurricanes\u2019 home games since 2018, and has got into the habit of performing a bilingual version when the Ottawa Senators and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"montreal-canadiens\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> come to play.<\/p>\n<p>Greer has more than 10 years of experience singing national anthems in sports stadiums but says he&#8217;s never experienced an atmosphere like one at the start of Thursday\u2019s game in Raleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer who performed a bilingual version of &#8220;O Canada&#8221; in North Carolina ahead of the Hurricanes-Canadiens NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-688366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}