Ben Folds
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ben Folds Responds to Performers Leaving Kennedy Center · 11 Jan 2026
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Like, look, look what I've got.
You know, that's what it seems like when he put his name on.
Well, it's tricky because it's really different for everybody.
I mean, for instance, my friends in the National Symphony Orchestra, some of them have varying views about how they should be handling this, but nobody's happy or inspired by it.
They're really worried about their jobs, and they're in a different position than me.
I was in a position to draw attention to this, and I knew that as a curator,
that there's no way that I could curate fairly and safely.
I can't bring in artists who might have different views than Rick Grinnell or Trump.
I can't bring those people in.
Like, look, they had Yasmin Williams,
you know, booed that they're paid to do it.
So yeah, I think that everyone has to find their own space there.
I personally wouldn't touch the place while it's nuclear right now, because I don't think that you're really, I wouldn't feel safe playing there.
i i wouldn't think that i was in good hands i wouldn't think people are going to show up even if i'm just going to be a total capitalist about it it's like yeah let the market speak how's the kennedy center doing oops don't play there that venue that venue can't draw a crowd so they don't know what they're doing there so um i don't see any reason to be there now you know like an organization like the the uh the opera
they have a board, they have a whole kind of contracts with them.
We'll see what happens.
But the individuals that work for them are just people trying to make a living in the arts and they just got to show up at work.
And it's really, really unfortunate.
It's really sad.
It makes me sad for all of them.
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