{"id":27023,"date":"2025-12-26T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27023"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:55:06","slug":"christmas-concert-canceled-after-host-withdraws-over-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27023","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Concert Canceled After Host Withdraws Over Rebrand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A long-standing Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center came to an unexpected halt this year after veteran musician Chuck Redd chose to withdraw in response to a disputed branding decision connected to former President Donald Trump. The concert, which had become a familiar holiday tradition for many attendees, ended abruptly when Redd announced he would no longer participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Redd, who had been involved with the event for more than twenty years, explained that the association conflicted with what the performance represented to him. He described the concert as a celebration of music, continuity, and shared cultural joy, rather than a platform linked to contemporary political figures. Stepping away, he said, was a difficult decision made out of principle rather than protest for its own sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center came to an unexpected halt this year after veteran musician Chuck Redd chose to withdraw in response&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":263,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27025,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions\/27025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}