New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/arts/kennedy-center-new-years-eve-concerts-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AlA.76E7.ETAVBeSm288Z&smid=url-share

New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was “evidently” connected to President Trump’s name being added to the arts center.


The veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts centers after it was renamed to include President Trump.

The center had previously promoted two New Year’s Eve performances by the Cookers as an “all-star jazz septet that will ignite the Terrace Theater stage with fire and soul.” But those performances, like an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert hosted by Chuck Redd, are now canceled.

The Cookers did not give a reason for the decision in a statement on Monday that said, “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”

But the band’s drummer, Billy Hart, told The New York Times that the center’s name change had “evidently” played a role. He acknowledged that the group was concerned about possible reprisals.

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1. i suppose trump (AKA Anthony Fremont) will sue them for a billion dollars

[Initech]

2. Another nice thing we can't have because of Donny Fuckface and his goons.

[rampartd]

3. just wait until the mark twain award is announced next year.

won't be no kimmel ir colbert getting that golden precious.

hmmm is there an emoji that can make "my precious"

here is one that looks like the vp looking for a hot date......



i wonder what that means

[Cha]

4. I think this was the Cookers "answer"...

“Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”

Thank You

[tirebiter]

5. The Trump anythings just need to be done

[Maraya1969]

6. It's sad but it needs to be done.

To bad they couldn't find a different venue

[Skittles]

7. know what actually IS "a form of derangement", Mr. Grenell?

that fascist POS Trump adding his fucking name to a MEMORIAL

[Warpy]

8. That is really a shame

but I know as long as MAGAts on the BOD try to force that man's name on the building, both performers and audiences will stay away. My guess is that it will stay mostly dark until he is gone.

He really does kill everything he touches.