Low Lower Connie, a Philadelphia-based rock band, is claiming its scheduled efficiency at a music competition this week was canceled due to politics.
Frontman Adam Weiner posted a message to followers on social media on Monday saying the band had been pulled from the lineup for the “Rocking the River” competition in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Friday.
“For the primary time ever, my present has been canceled for ‘political’ causes,” Weiner wrote to the band’s Fb web page. “The promoters in Luzerne County, PA really feel that this weekend’s Low Lower Connie present in Wilkes-Barre might be too controversial and polarizing —Low Lower Connie exhibits are fairly the other!!”
The annual summer time live performance collection is marketed as a free occasion open to all ages. An AC/DC cover band has changed Low Lower Connie for the July 25 lineup.
In a video message, the musician referred to as the county’s resolution “so disappointing and upsetting.”
“Why did they cancel the present?” he asked. “They gained’t inform us, however they’ve indicated they’re canceling my present for political causes. Now, let me offer you just a little little bit of context. In case you’ve been to a Low Lower Connie Present, you understand that onstage, I discuss variety.”
Weiner stated he believes variety is considered one of America’s strengths, and he wouldn’t “apologize” for utilizing the phrases.
“Folks don’t just like the phrase, however I’ll proceed to make use of it as a result of everyone seems to be welcome at a Low Lower Connie present. ‘Range’ and ‘inclusion’ shouldn’t be soiled phrases,” he stated.
Weiner additionally steered the band’s protest tune referred to as “Livin’ within the USA” might’ve factored into the choice.
The tune, launched in Could, addresses the “terror, the unease, the concern that so many individuals are experiencing proper now in the USA.”
“Due to these ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] raids which might be completely inhumane and anti-American,” Weiner stated.
He referred to as the present promoter’s resolution to cancel the efficiency “cowardly.”
“We might have had a stupendous present this Friday,” he stated, earlier than evaluating his expertise to that of late-night host Stephen Colbert’s, whose late-night comedy show was canceled final week. Colbert is an outspoken progressive.
“Artists like myself are dropping work due to our rules, identical to Stephen Colbert,” he stated.
A Luzerne County spokesperson instructed Fox Information Digital, “Our objective is to have a spot the place we will take pleasure in music, meals, promote our group, have enjoyable, be secure and freed from politics and propaganda.”
Low Lower Connie additionally pulled out of a scheduled Kennedy Center present in March in protest of President Donald Trump’s takeover of the venue.
