Earlier this month, it was unexpectedly introduced that the Kennedy Heart was getting renamed the Trump-Kennedy Heart. Musician Chuck Redd protested by canceling his Christmas Eve efficiency on the venue, and now he is getting threatened with authorized motion.
“Your determination to withdraw on the final second — explicitly in response to the Heart’s latest renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to avoid wasting this nationwide treasure — is traditional intolerance and really expensive to a non-profit Arts establishment,” Richard Grenell, the venue’s president, wrote in a letter, in response to the Related Press. He added that he would search $1 million in damages “for this political stunt.”
Since 2006, Redd has hosted the Jazz Jams occasion yearly for Christmas Eve on the venue. “After I noticed the identify change on the Kennedy Heart web site after which hours afterward the constructing, I selected to cancel our live performance,” he instructed the Related Press in an e-mail.
Again in February, Ben Folds resigned his put up as Nationwide Symphony Orchestra creative advisor in protest of Trump appointing himself Kennedy Heart chairman.
