Rhiannon Giddens was scheduled to play the Kennedy Center in May, but instead she’s become the latest performer to tell the Trump-controlled venue to shove it up their ass. Not in those words, of course – she was a lot classier about it than would be.
I kept quiet until now because I wanted to make a thoughtful and thought-out decision, but also because it took time to get the new gig set up and I wanted to make it as easy as possible for folks to follow us the 8-minute drive down the street to The Anthem! All Kennedy Center tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. The Anthem tickets are now on sale. I am lucky to have found another venue willing to make this change at such a late date.
Artists aren’t the only ones heading for the exits. The Washington Post reports that ticket sales have dropped by 50% since the Fat Flatulent seized control.
Giddens’ defection can hardly be called a surprise. She recorded this version of Woody Guthrie’s anti-Nazi song with the Resistance Revival Chorus in 2020, toward the end of Trump’s first reign of destruction.
