Renée Fleming is the 16th artist/group/production to cancel in protest of the trump administration decisions in the past year.
The previous 15 are:
- US Marine Band canceled 2/25
- Issa Rae canceled 2/25
- Balún canceled 2/25
- Rhiannon Giddens canceled 2/25
- Low Cut Connie canceled 2/25
- Hamilton canceled 3/25
- Doug Varone and Dancers canceled 12/25
- Chuck Redd canceled 12/25
- The Cookers canceled 12/25
- Kristy Lee canceled 1/26
- Magpie canceled 1/26
- Stephen Schwartz canceled 1/26
- Béla Fleck canceled 1/26
- Sonia De Los Santos canceled 1/26
- Washington National Opera canceled 1/26
For anyone wondering about why the Marines aren’t playing, it’s because they were scheduled to perform with Equity Arc, an organization that helps black and brown kids have access to the music programs that have been cut from their schools.
So, because racism.
Thank you for adding context. Trumps DEI prevented the Kennedy Center performance, but a group of veteran military musicians stepped up.
Hearing Trump say “color blind, merit based” is infuriating when you live in a city where the kids near the white schools have music programs and the kids near the black and brown schools don’t.
Haha! Jokes on them. Trump can just get the choir of captive children that sang at his inauguration. Cheaper too. And captive, just the way trump likes his children.
They just have to give Kid Rock and Ted Nugent tenure .
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The kid rock/Niki Minaj collab residency is going to be 🔥
There’s always Kirk Cameron and Tila Tequila in “Our Town.”
