Headliner drops Florida music fest after Kyle Rittenhouse announced as guest – NBC Chicago

An upcoming music pageant in Florida has misplaced its headliner and a number of different acts after saying that Kyle Rittenhouse could be showing as a visitor.

Shell Shock II, a steel pageant set to be held on Oct. 19 in Orlando, billed as a “PTSD Charity and Consciousness Occasion” sponsored by The Antihero Podcast, has confronted backlash because it first introduced Rittenhouse as a visitor

Rittenhouse shot three folks, two fatally, at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police capturing of Jacob Blake in August 2020. Rittenhouse was later acquitted of all fees in connection to the capturing.

Following the announcement of Rittenhouse as a visitor, the pageant’s headliner, Evergreen Terrace, introduced in a press release on social media that they had been pulling out of the pageant.

“Evergreen Terrace has all the time supported and continues to help philanthropic occasions for veterans, PTSD consciousness, little one poverty, and plenty of extra, however we is not going to align with an occasion selling a perceived assassin akin to Kyle Rittenhouse capitalizing off of their pseudo superstar. Sadly we didn’t do our due diligence with this explicit occasion. Even after they provided to drag Kyle from the occasion, we found a number of related entities that we merely don’t agree with. As advocates without spending a dime speech we’re respectfully canceling the Shell Shock pageant. We shall be personally contributing to a veterans charity and urge you to do the identical. The promoters have been nothing lower than understanding,” the assertion stated partly.

Evergreen Terrace introduced in a Fb submit Thursday that the group is organizing a present with different bands that dropped out of Shell Shock, including that proceeds would profit “an related veterans group.”

“We play exhibits, not rallies,” the submit stated in its conclusion.

Different bands that dropped from the pageant embody Southpaw, American Hole and Let Me Bleed, in line with Loudwire.

The Antihero Podcast, who’s sponsoring the pageant, stated in an Instagram submit that “that is now about greater than live performance.”

“This can be a battle of ideology,” the submit stated.

In keeping with Loudwire, the pageant will now be headlined by SiC, a Slipknot cowl band originating from Texas.