在肯尼迪中心董事会投票决定将场地重新命名为包含美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的名字后，又有两名音乐家取消了在肯尼迪中心的演出。

老牌爵士乐队 The Cookers 表示，他们取消了两场除夕夜的演出。该组织在一份声明中没有提及特朗普或肯尼迪中心，但表示这一决定“很快就达成了”。

另一个团体 Doug Varone and Dancers 表示，由于更名，他们不会表演原定于 4 月份举行的两场演出，并补充道：“我们不能再允许自己或要求观众走进这个曾经伟大的机构。”

肯尼迪中心主席理查德·格雷内尔称取消活动是“一种精神错乱综合症”。

他说，取消演出的艺术家“是被前极左翼领导层预订的”。

他补充说：“他们的行为证明，之前的团队更关心预订极左政治活动人士，而不是愿意为每个人表演的艺术家，无论他们的政治信仰如何。”

库克乐队在宣布取消的决定时表示：“爵士乐诞生于斗争和对自由的不懈坚持：思想、表达和完整人类声音的自由。”他们补充说：“我们不会拒绝观众，并且确实希望确保当我们返回演奏台时，房间能够庆祝音乐和其中的每个人的充分存在。”乐队鼓手比利·哈特 (Billy Hart) 告诉《纽约时报》，更名“显然”在取消乐队的决定中发挥了作用。民谣歌手克里斯蒂·李最近也表示，她将取消一月份的演出。 

“当美国历史开始被视为可以为了别人的自我而禁止、抹去、重命名或重新命名的东西时，我无法站在那个舞台上晚上睡觉，”李在社交媒体帖子中说。

上周，音乐家查克·雷德 (Chuck Redd) 取消了他自 2006 年以来每年举办的圣诞夜演出，理由是该中心更名了。格雷内尔先生要求 Redd 赔偿 100 万美元（74 万英镑）的损失，并表示取消是一个“政治噱头”，“让我们付出了相当大的代价”。

特朗普的盟友组成的肯尼迪中心董事会本月早些时候投票决定将该机构更名为唐纳德·J·特朗普和约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术纪念中心。第二天，建筑物的外部添加了新的标牌。 

一些美国议员和法律学者认为，由于该中心是在 1964 年的一项法律中命名的，因此国会必须投票才能正式更名。 约翰·肯尼迪总统的一些家庭成员谴责了这一举动。该中心在肯尼迪遇刺后不久以纪念他的名字命名。

前众议院议员、已故总统的侄孙乔·肯尼迪三世表示，该场地“是对一位倒下总统的活生生的纪念，并根据联邦法律以肯尼迪总统的名字命名”。他补充说：“无论别人怎么说，它都不能重新命名，就像有人可以重新命名林肯纪念堂一样。”

Two more musicians have cancelled shows at the Kennedy Center, after its board voted to rename the venue to include US President Donald Trump's name.

The Cookers, a veteran jazz band, said they cancelled two New Year's Eve shows. In a statement, the group did not mention Trump or the Kennedy Center, but said the decision had "come together very quickly".

Another group, Doug Varone and Dancers, said they would not perform two shows scheduled for April because of the name change, adding: "We can no longer permit ourselves nor ask our audiences to step inside this once great institution."

Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center's president, called the cancellations "a form of derangement syndrome".

He said that the artists cancelling shows "were booked by the previous far left leadership".

"Their actions prove that the previous team was more concerned about booking far left political activists rather than artists willing to perform for everyone regardless of their political beliefs," he added.

Announcing their decision to cancel, the Cookers said: "Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."

"We are not turning away from our audience, and do want to make sure that when we do return to the bandstand, the room is able to celebrate the full presence of the music and everyone in it," they added.

Billy Hart, the band's drummer, told the New York Times the name change "evidently" played a role in the decision to cancel.

Kristy Lee, a folk singer, also recently said she was cancelling her January show. 

"When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else's ego, I can't stand on that stage and sleep right at night," Lee said in a social media post.

Last week, musician Chuck Redd called off his Christmas Eve performance, which he has hosted annually since 2006, citing the centre's name change.

Mr Grenell demanded $1m (£740,000) in damagesfrom Redd, and said the cancellation was a "political stunt" that "has cost us considerably".

The Kennedy Center's board, which Trump filled with allies, voted earlier this month to rename the institution the Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. New signage was added the building's exterior the next day. 

Some US lawmakers and legal scholars argued that because the centre was named in a 1964 law, Congress must vote to make the name change official. 

Some members of President John Kennedy's family have denounced the move. The centre was named in Kennedy's memory shortly after he was assassinated.

Joe Kennedy III, a former House member and grandnephew of the late president, said the venue "is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law".

"It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says," he added.