After slamming COVID-19 rules, Tritt to sing anthem at NLCS

ATLANTA – Country instrumentalist Travis Tritt, who canceled shows astatine venues that required a COVID-19 vaccine oregon mask-wearing, was acceptable to sing the nationalist anthem earlier Game 6 of the NL Championship Series connected Saturday night.

Tritt made the announcement connected his Twitter page.

“FYI - I volition beryllium singing our National Anthem for Game 6 of the NLCS successful Atlanta contiguous betwixt the @Braves and @Dodgers,” helium wrote, adding an American emblem to his post.

The 58-year-old Tritt is simply a autochthonal of suburban Marietta, not acold from the Braves' stadium. He has been a vocal protagonist of Atlanta's sports teams, adjacent penning a forgettable 2004 ode to the city's NFL team, “Falcons Fever.”

Tritt announced this week helium was canceling shows successful Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois and Kentucky implicit COVID-19 mandates, joining different salient entertainers specified arsenic Eric Clapton and Van Morrison successful griping astir rules designed to curb the dispersed of a microorganism that has killed much than 700,000 Americans and astir 5 cardinal radical astir the world.

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Tritt told Billboard that he’s “not against the vaccine” but is “against forcing radical to instrumentality medicine that they whitethorn not request and whitethorn not want.”

In August, helium released a connection claiming COVID-19 information protocols were “discriminating” against concertgoers and said that helium stood with those lasting up against “the squelching of immoderate circumstantial freedoms and basal quality rights astir the world.”

The Braves' 41,000-seat stadium, Truist Park, has allowed afloat capableness astir of the play with nary requirements for vaccinations, antagonistic tests oregon mask-wearing from fans.

Tritt is simply a two-time Grammy victor who has had 5 songs spell to No. 1 connected the state euphony charts, the astir caller being “Best of Intentions” successful 2000.

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