RHIANNON GIDDENS-MUSIC Singer cancels the Kennedy Center program, citing the takeover of Trump

The award -winning singer Rhiannon Giddens became the latest artist who dismissed the performance at Kennedy Center, who was under the leadership, since President Donald Trump released the leadership of the center and was elected chairman of the Trust Council.

Trump’s takeover is a component of its wide campaign against the culture of “Woke”.

“I decided to cancel my program at Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to the hymn,” she wrote in social media, referring to the separate place of Washington. “The Kennedy Center program was reserved long before the current administration decided to take over this two -sided institution.”

Giddens is an eclectic performer of Roots music known for his co -founder Karolina Chocolate Drops and such cooperation with Francesco Turrisi, like winning the Grammy Award “call me home”. In 2022, she helped write the Pulitzer Opera “Omar” award. He can also be the recipient of the Macarthur “Genius” grant.

Actor Issa Rae, writer Louise Penny and the Low Cut Connie rock band also canceled the planned events of Kennedy Center. The singer and writer of the lyrics Victoria Clark continued her program on February 15, but on the stage she wore the “Anti Trump Af” shirt.

Supported by government money and personal donations and attraction of hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, Kennedy Center is a fancy with a height of 100 feet with a concert hall, opera and theater, in addition to a lecture hall, meeting spaces and a “thousand -year stage”, which was a celebration to free shows.

Until Trump of their first term presidents routinely participated in the award ceremony, even in the presence of artists who didn’t agree with them politically.