{"id":111187,"date":"2026-05-29T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=111187"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:55:21","slug":"martina-mcbride-drops-out-of-freedom-250-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/martina-mcbride-drops-out-of-freedom-250-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina McBride Drops Out Of Freedom 250 Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boomsite.fm\/trumps-freedom-250-concert-lineup-triggers-artist-exodus?category=CHR%2FRhythmic%2CClassic%20Hits%2FOldies%2CFormat%20News\"><\/a>Musicians are abandoning Trump&#8217;s Freedom 250 concert after discovering its political ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Great American State Fair<\/strong>\u00a0event, planned for Washington D.C.&#8217;s National Mall on June 26th, was organized by Trump appointee Keith Krach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martina McBride dropped out, saying what she was told about the event was &#8220;misleading.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DY5s4J5qPRj\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>Morris Day of The Time called his supposed booking &#8220;a rumor&#8221; and refused participation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young MC announced on Facebook he won&#8217;t perform, saying artists weren&#8217;t told the event was political and called it &#8220;a bait-and-switch.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Real Milli Vanilli distanced themselves, saying others using their name are &#8220;tribute bands.&#8221; Fab Morvan, one of the two faces of the pop group who did not actually perform the songs, says he will perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C+C Music Factory members split\u2014Freedom Williams supports performing despite opposing Trump, while Robert Clivill\u00e9s said Williams misrepresents the group without permission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commodores also dropped out, saying they &#8220;choose not to publicly affiliate with any single political party.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flo Rida and Vanilla Ice are still scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musicians are abandoning Trump&#8217;s Freedom 250 concert after discovering its political ties.\u00a0 The Great American State Fair\u00a0event, planned for Washington D.C.&#8217;s National Mall on June 26th, was organized by Trump appointee Keith Krach. Martina McBride dropped out, saying what she was told about the event was &#8220;misleading.&#8221; Morris Day of The Time called his supposed","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":83704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[12281,2050,12282,11476],"class_list":["post-111187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-freedom-250-concert","tag-martina-mcbride","tag-the-great-american-state-fair","tag-washington"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 15:20:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/martina-mcbride-drops-out-of-freedom-250-concert\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111188,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111187\/revisions\/111188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}