During a National Symphony Orchestra performance, protests erupted as Vice-President J.D. Vance was booed, while folk musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman performed at a nearby venue. They held up signs demanding the reinstatement of queer programming at the Kennedy Center, which is now under Trump loyalists after significant board changes. This politically charged atmosphere has led several high-profile artists to cancel performances. The protest reflected a growing movement among artists to assert their voice amid political tensions.
In the five weeks since President Donald Trump assumed control of the Kennedy Center by firing all the Biden-appointed members on its once-bipartisan board of directors, appointing Trump loyalists.
We play folk music and there's a lot of protest music that is part of the folk-music canon, but we definitely would not identify as people who play political music.
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