New Year’s Eve concerts at Kennedy Center are cancelled

WASHINGTON – A veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have cancelled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s preeminent arts centres after it was renamed to include President Donald Trump.

The centre 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 cancelled.