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Luke Bryan will sing National Anthem at Preds game Thursday night

NEW YORK-AUG 16: Singer Luke Bryan performs on NBC's Today Show at Rockefeller Plaza on August 16, 2013 in New York City. Photo: shutterstock

Luke Bryan will sing National Anthem at Preds game Thursday night

Thursday, the Nashville Predators will host Hockey Has Heart Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Night in support of the cardiac research and support that takes place at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

CHD, impacts around 40,000 newborns in the United States per year…it happens when the heart, or blood vessels near the heart, don’t develop normally before birth.

Game time is at 7 p.m., the Preds will take on the Islanders.  The Preds will be joined by two young CHD patients and Luke Bryan will perform the National Anthem.

Luke and his wife Caroline Boyer Bryan lost their niece, Sadie Brett Boyer, to complications of CHD in 2017, they came together with Brett’s parents, Ellen and Bo Boyer, to create The Brett Boyer Foundation in her honor.  The 2 families have been committed to raising awareness and funding research surrounding CHD.

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