Mark Donnelly is a Canadian singer famous for singing the national anthem "O Canada" at Vancouver Canucks home games.[1] Donnelly is well known for holding the microphone to the crowd and encouraging the crowd to sing along.[2]
Donnelly was born and raised in Vancouver and North Delta, playing hockey from the age of 12.[3] Armed with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia[4], he began singing national anthems for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League while working for a Scranton, Pennsylvania parish.[3] After he and his family moved back to Vancouver, he started doing the same for the Vancouver Canucks beginning in 2001.[3]
He made a cameo appearance in the TV show Psych, playing an opera singer in the season four premiere episode "Extradition: British Columbia".
He, his wife Catherine, and their nine children currently reside in White Rock, British Columbia.[3] His brother, Lawrence, is the priest of St. Jude's Parish in East Vancouver.