Thread: Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down To Perform At Trump’s Inauguration

1/13/2017
JACK KOCSIS

The Inaugural Committee announced today that Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and Jennifer Holliday would all be performing the day before the 58th Presidential Inauguration. A welcome celebration concert will be held on January 19. Tickets are available on the committee’s website.

This summer, Toby Keith released a new single, “A Few More Cowboys.”



The southern rock band 3 Doors Down, most known for the song “Kryptonite,” also released new music in 2016. Titled “Us And The Night,” the album most prominently featured hit song “In The Dark.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/13/in...ncert-amazon1/

Thank you Toby Keith, 3 Doors Down and Jennifer Holliday!! Thank you very very much!!

3 Doors Down are good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFq1eT9tMJ4
patriotic too

Never heard of 3 Doors Down or Jennifer Holiday but I certainly like and respect Toby Keith.

Jennifer Holliday is a Broadway Star, she sang and acted in the famous Broadway Play, Dreamgirls.

They will all be more famous after this.

Yes, you're so right, Jean! More people will know them all!! There appears to be some confusion over whether Holliday has actually accepted the invitation. She's supposed to make the decision today. Media is claiming Trump transition team jumped the gun a bit with her. I hope she accepts and does a beautiful job. She's a tremendous singer.

Jennifer Holliday dropped out due to pressure from the LGBT community! How weird is that when Donald Trump supports gay rights and always has??!!

Our country is really full of stupid people. So sad to see Jennifer Holliday prove herself one of them.

Buh Bye Jennifer!
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Broadway Singer Jennifer Holliday Drops Out of Trump Inauguration

By Daniel Kreps
1 hour ago

A day after Jennifer Holliday was listed among the artists participating in Donald Trump's Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration, the Broadway star announced that she was dropping out of the inauguration performance following criticism from her fans.

In an open letter to Holliday's "beloved LGBT community" that she provided to the Wrap, the Dreamgirls singer explained that she agreed to the performance because of her reputation as a "bi-partisan songbird."

"I was honestly just thinking that I wanted my voice to be a healing and unifying force for hope through music to help our deeply polarized country," Holliday wrote. "Regretfully, I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act against my own personal beliefs and be mistaken for support of Donald Trump and Mike Pence."

Pence, as governor of Indiana, signed the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which targeted the rights of LGBTQ people.

Holliday, a longtime star on Broadway, admitted that the response from the LGBT community to her performance – including a Daily Beast article titled "Jennifer Holliday Will Perform at Trump’s Inauguration, Which Is Heartbreaking to Gay Fans" – convinced her to pull out of the Make America Great Again concert.

"I sincerely apologize for my lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time in history and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans," Holliday wrote.

Holliday was scheduled to join 3 Doors Down, Toby Keith, Lee Greenwood and other artists at the Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration on the steps of Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial on January 20th.

Holliday's exit is the latest in a string of embarrassments for Trump's inauguration committee: Members of the Rockettes and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have voiced their frustration about performing for Trump, while the inauguration team has had difficulties attracting A-list talent to the event.

Read Holliday's open letter in its entirety below:

TO MY BELOVED LGBT COMMUNITY:

Please allow me this opportunity to speak to you directly and to explain why I originally made my decision to perform at the inauguration which was what I had thought would be my simply keeping in my tradition of being a "bi-partisan songbird" having sung for Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush.

I was asked to sing a song for what was presented to me as the "Welcome Concert For The People"– in my mind I was reflecting on the past times of being asked to sing for presidents and I only focused on the phrase "For The People"… I thought, For America!

I was honestly just thinking that I wanted my voice to be a healing and unifying force for hope through music to help our deeply polarized country… Regretfully, I did not take into consideration that my performing for the concert would actually instead be taken as a political act against my own personal beliefs and be mistaken for support of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

In light of the information pointed out to me via the Daily Beast article on yesterday, my only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT Community and to state unequivocally that I WILL NOT PERFORM FOR THE WELCOME CONCERT OR FOR ANY OF THE INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES!

I sincerely apologize for my lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time in history and for causing such dismay and heartbreak to my fans.

Please know that I HEAR YOU and I feel your pain. The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you… You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.

Thank you for communicating with me, I had no idea that I still meant so much to all of you.

Thank you for your posted comments both the good supportive ones as well as the ugly hurtful ones.

With LOVE & Appreciation,

JENNIFER HOLLIDAY
"The Original DreamGirl"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ration-w461157

Not surprised. There are a lot of gays in the industry. My niece is a stage manager and she and most of her co-workers absolutely despise Trump. Actually on facebook she defriended all family members that voted on Trump, which was most of us. Her and all her friends are pulling their hair out in disbelief over Trump's election win.

I don't understand why gays hate Trump. He's always supported the LGBTQ community. I guess they never paid enough attention to know that.