Be a star with the Star-Spangled Banner!  Upload a video of yourself singing the first stanza of the national anthem, a cappella, and enter to win the singing contest sponsored by The Roanoke Times|roanoke.com.

The grand prize winner will perform the national anthem at Music for Americans on July 4 at River’s Edge in front of 25,000 people!   The grand prize winner also receives a Gift Card for $500, second prize winner will get $250 and third prize will get $100.  Winners will be judged by popular vote.

First Stanza of the Star-Spangled Banner

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 bombs 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?