{"id":237477,"date":"2025-10-24T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237477\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:57:07","slug":"alessia-cara-bebe-rexha-to-sing-national-anthems-in-game-2-of-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237477\/","title":{"rendered":"Alessia Cara, Bebe Rexha to sing national anthems in Game 2 of World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Alessia Cara will lend her voice to Canada\u2019s national anthem for Game 2 in the World Series tomorrow, while pop singer Bebe Rexha will sing the Star-Spangled Banner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">American gospel group Voices of Fire is the listed performer for both anthems ahead of tonight\u2019s game in Toronto, along with \u201ca local ensemble of vocalists\u201d joining for O Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An MLB spokesperson says members of Toronto-area choirs, orchestras and marching bands will join the anthem performance for Game 1 between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers, in what promises to be a massive display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MLB says the decision to have Pharrell Williams and the 75-member Voices of Fire headline tonight\u2019s pre-game performance was made before the Jays made it to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michael Burgess, the late Canadian tenor, became the first person to sing O Canada in the World Series in 1992 and he reprised the role for the first game of the series in \u201993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other Canadian anthem performers in the Jays\u2019 previous two World Series runs included Anne Murray, Tom Cochrane and Rita MacNeil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Alessia Cara will lend her voice to Canada\u2019s national anthem for Game 2 in the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[76,49,48,75,462,341,82,24418],"class_list":{"0":"post-237477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}