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Dems Against Trump ?@KeepAmerGr8Andrea Bocelli Cancels Trump Inauguration Appearance After Backlash #BoycottBocelli
Famed tenor Andrea Bocelli has decided that it is not worth it to accept the Trump inauguration gig because of the backlash he has received. After saying that he would sing at the Trump Inaugural in 2017, a #BoycottBocelli movement got started, and Bocelli was reportedly feeling the heat. The backlash continued to brew, and Andrea Bocelli has decided that it isnt worth it.
Sources close to tenor Andrea Bocelli said he did not anticipate so much venom in agreeing to sing for the Trump inauguration celebration, says PageSix. When he heard about the #BoycottBocelli movement, he was shocked. Even though it is a political event, Bocelli thought of it as a celebration.
...The Boston Globe says that Andrea Bocelli performed in Boston for the first time in years on Saturday night, but some ticket holders decided to skip based on the Trump inauguration performance. Twitter users and fans of Italian tenor Bocelli have been begging him to cancel on the President-elect. Others are taking it further, and threatening to destroy their Bocelli CDs and boycott his concerts.
read more: http://www.inquisitr.com/3812441/andrea-bocelli-cancels-trump-inauguration-appearance-after-backlash-boycottbocelli/
Coventina
(27,223 posts)A celebration? Really?
I know most of Western Europe follows American elections pretty closely.
When I was in Durham, England in 2008, just as the campaign was getting underway, I attended an evensong service at Durham Cathedral, and the priest mentioned the American election IN HIS PRAYER!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Perhaps being sightless he wasn't fully aware of the endless visuals of Trump everyone else has seen.
Anyway, I'm very happy he pulled out.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I sent him a tweet.
Now, Jackie Evancho should cancel as well.
Mike Nelson
(9,984 posts)...how Trump would be considered a "celebration," I think we should thank him.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)Cha
(298,020 posts)deserves props.
mahalo, bigtree~
Cha
(298,020 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)man on the moonshine
(59 posts)of http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028383643
Sorry, bigtree.
Denzil_DC
(7,288 posts)We quite often have more than one thread about the same issue in the other subforums, it's not a problem.
And welcome to DU.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I bet he can still book some of those Nazi-themed hardcore bands to play Inauguration.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)They are not military folks who 'decided to join the band.
They are all professional musicians who got the gig through auditions, very difficult auditions... same as orchestra musicians.
Same with the West Point Band, Air Force Band in.. Boulder is it? etc..
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)and refuse to play.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I was just saying something whilst enjoying my morning Guatemalan high mountain espresso.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)or even in one...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)just as a point of info..
pangaia
(24,324 posts)He is NOT a famed tenor.
In fact he is not even a 'tenor.'
He is a pop/crossover from nowhere singer.
Signed your friend,
Pangaia from DU
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)Wayne Newton, Ped Nugent,..uh... ummm... can Scott Baio sing?
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Lol. I can't imagine many of them even know who he is.
TaterBake
(56 posts)Donald Trump is a Russian agent.
Don't believe me? Just wait till he lifts the sanctions, and lets Exxon go ahead with their $500 billion dollar deal.
Anyone supporting Trump in any way should be arrested and tried for treason.
Coventina
(27,223 posts)Glad he decided not to perform, though.
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)Mussolini's coronation to be a "celebration" tells me everything I need to know about him. I don't care if he's backed out of performing, his Christmas and other CD's I have are still going into the trash. He cancelled because of fear, and not because he understands what a dangerous fascist Drumpf is.