New York (AP) -Award-winning singer-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the newest artist to appear on the Kennedy Center, who has been in unrest since the president Donald Trump Forced to perform the leadership of the center and was elected chairman of the board of directors.
Trump’s takeover of the center is part of his broad campaign against the “Wakker” culture.
“I decided to cancel my show at the Kennedy Center on 11 May 2025 and move it to the national anthem,” she wrote on social media, referring to a separate Washington, DC location. “The Kennedy Center show was booked for a long time before the current administration decided to take over this two -way institution.”
Giddens is an eclectic root music artist Known for co-founder of the Carolina chocolate droplets and for collaborations with Francesco Turrisi as the Grammy who “they call me home”. In 2022 she helped write the Pulitzer Prize Winning Opera “Omar”. She is also a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” fair.
Actor Issa Raeauthor Louise Penny And the rock band Low Cut Connie has also canceled planned Kennedy Center events. Singer-songwriter Victoria Clark continued her show of 15 February, but wore a T-shirt with the ‘Anti Trump’ lecture on stage.
The Kennedy Center is supported by government money and private donations and attracting millions of visitors and is a 100-foot high complex with a concert hall, opera house and theater, together with a lecture hall, meeting rooms and a “Millennium stage” that the site has been for free shows.
Until Trump in his first term, presidents have routinely attended the Honors ceremony, even in the presence of artists who did not agree politically.