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A heated email exchange between Richard Grenell, the interim head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and ...
The acclaimed guitarist spoke with Pitchfork about her viral conversation with Trump ally Richard Grenell, her hopes for the future of the Kennedy Center, and more ...
After Donald Trump gutted the Kennedy Center, installed himself as chairman, and put a bunch of cronies on the board, guitarist Yasmin Williams reached out to the institution’s interim executive ...
Kennedy Center Interim Executive Director Richard Grenell said, 'The programs are so woke that they haven’t made money. Yes, I cut the DEI bulls**t ...' A musician who contacted John F Kennedy ...
In her original email, Williams asked Grenell directly: "Does the President actually care about artists canceling shows at the Kennedy Center? What, if anything, has changed about the Kennedy ...
Yasmin Williams and Cathy Fink, two musicians with deep ties to ... On Wednesday, Williams wrote to what appears to be Grenell's official Kennedy Center email telling him she's performed at the center ...
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a musician is calling out the interim president for an "unprofessional and rude" email exchange. Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams took to Instagram ...
Today, the composer and guitarist Yasmin Williams shared a series of emails she exchanged with Grenell after asking him directly about changes at the Kennedy Center. The responses are telling.
One artist who does not wish to boycott the Kennedy Center, however, is Virginian guitarist Yasmin Williams. According to screenshots of her email exchange that she posted online, Williams had ...
After Donald Trump gutted the Kennedy Center, installed himself as chairman, and put a bunch of cronies on the board, guitarist Yasmin Williams reached out to the institution's interim executive ...
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ... “aggressively upset” during the exchange on Tuesday, musician Yasmin Williams told CNN in an interview Thursday. She had initially emailed Grenell ...
Grenell went on to complain to Williams that “Your people also booed and harassed” Vice President J.D. Vance when he and his wife, Usha Vance, attended a Kennedy Center show last month.