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\u201cI have withdrawn from my upcoming performance with the Nso at The Kennedy Center. Performing there has become charged and political, at an institution where the focus should be on the music,\u201d Fleck<\/a> wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Fleck was set to perform with the National Symphony Orchestra<\/a>, with whom he earlier composed a banjo concerto that became the subject of a documentary he co-directed with Sascha Paladino<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to playing with the Nso another time in the future when we can together share and celebrate art,\u201d Fleck added on Instagram<\/a>. His social media post was condemned by Richard Grenell<\/a>, a Trump ally whom the president chose to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grammy-winning banjo player Bela Fleck is the latest artist to cancel a schedule performance at the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump\u2019s name was added to the arts and cultural institution as part of a wider takeover. \u201cI have withdrawn from my upcoming performance with the Nso at The Kennedy Center. Performing there has become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2226102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2226101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bela-Fleck-Cancels-Concert-at-Trumps-Kennedy-Center-Performing-There.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226103,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226101\/revisions\/2226103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}