Kennedy Center Must Pay More Than $250,000 To Musician Who Canceled Over Trump Renaming

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The Kennedy Center, still embroiled successful a ineligible conflict to adhd backmost President Donald Trump’s name, was ordered by a judge Tuesday to salary much than $250,000 to a jazz musician it sued for backing retired of a planned performance successful protestation of the summation of Trump’s sanction to the center’s branding.

The Kennedy Center owes $252,479.70 successful attorney’s fees to Chuck Redd, a jazz musician who canceled a Christmas Eve capacity aft the Kennedy Center committee voted to adhd Trump’s sanction to the building, D.C. Superior Court judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier ruled Tuesday.

Bosier antecedently dismissed the Kennedy Center’s suit against the musician, which accused Redd of breach of contract, successful June, saying the arts halfway grounded to beryllium Redd had signed a statement to perform.

Redd was scheduled to big the center’s yearly “Jazz Jam” event, but later became 1 of a bid of artists to cancel Kennedy Center gigs successful protest.

The Kennedy Center’s then-president, Richard Grenell, vowed to writer Redd for $1 cardinal successful damages, calling his determination to propulsion retired of the gig a “political stunt.”