Star Spangled Performance Program
Service members and veterans who perform the national anthem and ceremonial music alongside the All American Color Guard.
The Anthem, Sung By Someone Who Served
The SSPP is the companion program to the color guard. Service members and veterans audition for a place on the roster, and those selected perform the national anthem and ceremonial music at foundation events.
It exists because the two halves belong together. The colors come forward and the anthem carries them. When both are done by people who wore the uniform, the moment lands differently, and everyone in the venue can feel it.
Performers are drawn from every branch and every status, the same as the color guard. Vocalists, instrumentalists and buglers all have a place on the roster.
What Gets Performed
The Star-Spangled Banner, performed straight. No improvisation on the melody, no liberties with the tempo. It is a march, and it is treated as one.
God Bless America, America the Beautiful, the service songs, and the music a formal ceremony calls for at the moment it calls for it.
Taps and the bugle calls for memorials, funerals, wreath layings and observances, rendered to standard.
One Sequence, Not Two Bookings
Ask for the color guard and an anthem in the same request and we will coordinate them as a single sequence, rehearsed together, timed to your run of show. You get one point of contact for both.
Auditions Are Open To Those Who Served
If you are active duty, Reserve, National Guard or an honorably discharged veteran and you can perform, submit an audition tape.
We listen to every submission. You do not need a studio, an accompanist or a resume of past performances. You need to be able to sing or play the anthem well enough to carry a full stadium without help.
Put The Colors At The Front Of Your Event
Ceremonies, games, parades, memorials, openings, private events. Tell us the date and what the moment calls for, and we will tell you what we can field.