If you’re feeling a bit brave, you think you’ve got some vocal talent (or maybe you just want to have some fun) and you’re going to be in or around Memphis for some Memphis Redbirds games this season, get a load of this:

Performers interested in singing the national anthem at a Redbirds game can send a tryout tape, CD, mp3 or DVD to the Redbirds by April 1 and be entered into consideration for the chance to kick off America’s pastime in the most American of ways. If you’re interested, e-mail the Redbirds’ Cory Shedd. The recording has to be a cappella, by the way.

Judging by some of the renditions I’ve heard in the past, you don’t have to be Mariah Carey or Nick Lachey to get the gig.

– Brandon Harris