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Shots from the Inaugural Ceremony: Collins sings National Anthem

OLYMPIA -- Judy Collins sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening of the inaugural session of the Legislature on 1/11/2017. (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)
OLYMPIA -- Judy Collins sings "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening of the inaugural session of the Legislature on 1/11/2017. (Jim Camden/The Spokesman-Review)

OLYMPIA -- Judy Collins sang "The Star Spangled Banner" to open the special joint session of the Legislature in which the statewide executive officials were inaugurated.

For an encore, she sang three verses of "America the Beautiful" to close it out.



Jim Camden
Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

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