Opera singer Lynda Canaday, of Lawrence, sings the national anthem before a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees on Thursday in Kansas City, Mo.

It’s a song that brings people to their feet and has also brought tears to some people’s eyes. Lawrence resident Lynda Canaday has never seen that reaction to the national anthem. Tonight, however, she experienced it: singing the Star Spangled Banner before thousands of people at Kaufman Stadium.