This year she’s primed to both be a part of the patriotic spectacle and to watch it light up the nighttime sky.

Jenkins will again be the guest vocalist of honor for the Grand Teton Music Festival’s annual Fourth of July “Patriotic Pops” concert, set for 7 p.m. Monday on the Center Lawn. Maestro Donald Runnicles will make his first appearance of this 61st season (see page 3 for more on the 2022 lineup), while the orchestra will make its second — following Sunday’s free family concert on the same stage.

“As a singer you could get invited anywhere,” Jenkins said last week by phone. “But the sweet spot is when you get invited back.”

This year Jenkins joins the orchestra in some traditional American fare.

“You know you gotta sing ‘America’ and ‘God Bless America,’” she said. “And then it’s all about figuring out songs that feel American. … I know I’m doing ‘Goodie Goodie,’ one of my favorite songs ever, and I’m going to do ‘What a Wonderful World.’”

Emma Kail, the executive director of the music festival, said the audience can expect plenty of favorites with music from mainstay American composers like Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Morton Gould.

“But there will also be a couple of John Williams pieces,” she said, “and Capathia sings Harold Arlan’s ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’”

Conspicuously absent is “The 1812 Overture” by Russia’s paragon composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

“We’re keeping it all-American,” Kail said.

The main goal of a patriotic pops concert is to stick to traditions, and that is what the festival concert has done since former Music Director Eiji Oue hosted the first July Fourth bash in the late 1990s.

“When you sing a song like ‘America the Beautiful,’” Jenkins said, “in these times it feels aspirational. It’s always been inspirational, but this time it feels aspirational — this is what this song promises.

“And the other side of it is, it really is, as a singer, a privilege to sing these words,” she said. “And singing them at Grand Teton and looking out at the sunset, and the mountain are purple — they really are purple! — and, oh, my God, this is what the song is about. … So, it can feel complicated and all of that, but at the root of it, it’s inspirations, it’s aspirational and for me, what a privilege it is to sing these words as a Black woman. It’s very powerful on so many levels.”

Reserve seating on the Center Lawn sold out a while ago, and Kail said last week that free tickets for the Center Lawn were running low and would likely sell out. But the town of Jackson has allowed the festival to close off a stretch of Cache Street, and, really, the concert should be able to be heard far and wide throughout town.

Go to GTMF.org for tickets or to get on the wait list.