Jazz concert cancelled over Trump name remaining

A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been cancelled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.  As of last Friday, the building’s facade reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. According to the White House, the president’s handpicked board approved the decision, which scholars have said violates the law. Trump had been suggesting for months that he was open to changing the centre’s name. “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd told.