Ben Folds, Who Stepped Down From Kennedy Center One Minute After Trump Took Over, Releases Defiant Live Album With National Symphony Orchestra

Ben Folds Releases New Live Album with National Symphony Orchestra on Fourth of July

This Fourth of July, musician Ben Folds has released a brand-new album recorded live at the sold-out Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The show took place before Trump seized the Center and Folds resigned from his leadership position there in protest.  The album, Ben Folds Live with the National Symphony Orchestra, features both Ben Folds classics and new music in collaboration with the Nati…

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Ben Folds, Who Stepped Down From Kennedy Center One Minute After Trump Took Over, Releases Defiant Live Album With National Symphony Orchestra

After announcing his resignation as the first-ever artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra in February, just one minute after President Donald Trump’s administrative regime change took hold at the Kennedy Center, Ben Folds has surprise-released the album “Ben Folds Live with the National Symphony Orchestra” — no doubt intended as a defiant rebuttal to […]