Rick Grenell sends letter to Chuck Redd after he canceled show over venue’s name change
The president of the Kennedy Center intends to seek $1 million in damages from a jazz musician who abruptly cancelled a scheduled performance over the iconic D.C. performing arts center’s rebranding to include President Donald Trump’s name.
Ambassador Richard Grenell sent a letter to Chuck Redd claiming his “last-minute” cancellation of his Dec. 24 Jazz Jam performance was a “political stunt” in protest of the Center’s being renamed the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Grenell claimed the musician’s cancellation cost the center “considerably” due to the artist’s “dismal ticket sales and lack of donor support.
