A U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus performance at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts has been cancelled, the latest local casualty of the federal government shutdown.
The Army cancelled the Nov. 3 concert due to a “lack of government appropriations,” according to the Army Field Band’s website.
The Kravis Center is among a number of venues nationwide that will not host the band and chorus. The Army had to cease all community outreach events until a temporary funding bill or annual appropriation bill is passed by Congress and signed into law, said Lt. Col. Patrick J.O. Husted, public affairs director for the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington…