Joan Jett and CeeLo Green have swapped places. In a press release issued by the Gretna Heritage Festival, it was revealed that Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will be headlining the event in place of CeeLo Green.
Officials from the Gretna Heritage Festival explained that CeeLo was booted from the concert series because of tweets that he posted last week where he tried to defend himself against rape allegations.
Jefferson Parish councilman and festival co-chair Ricky Templet, said that “CeeLo’ comments are not acceptable.”
Templet and Jett may have been pushed to dump CeeLo Green because of a petition started on Change.org.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will perform at the 2014 Gretna Heritage Festival in the City of Gretna, Louisiana on Sunday October 5th.
Gretna Heritage Festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will begin on October 3rd and conclude on October 5th.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts is an 1980s rock band that has released 10 albums – the first came out in 1981 entitled I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll and the latest was in 2013 called Unvarnished.
Along with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Cherub and Lynyrd Skynyrd are expected to take the stage during the musical event.
This weekend, CeeLo Green not only learned that he was being replaced by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the 39-year-old was also dumped by United States Navy for their forthcoming benefit concert.
CeeLo Green whose real name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway will no longer be taking the stage at the United States Navy-sponsored concert scheduled for September 20 in Washington, D.C.
In a statement the United States Navy said that they no longer want to be associated to the “No One’s Gonna Love You” singer because “the comments posted on social media by Mr CeeLo Green were completely inconsistent with Navy core values.”
A replacement for CeeLo Green will be announced in the upcoming days – maybe they should call Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
On September 2nd, CeeLo who was accused of giving a 33-year-old woman Ecstasy in 2012 while on a date with her, took to Twitter where he asked some bizarre questions.
The “The Lady Killer” artist asked, is it rape if the woman is unconscious and can not remember that she was sexually assaulted?
Green also stated that when a female was raped, she has a recollection of the horrible event.
After the insensitive tweets went viral, the “I Want You” artist deleted them and offered a half apology saying that his words were taken out of context.
The scandalous post lead to the cancellation of his show CeeLo Green’s The Good Life on TBS. It is believed that The Voice dumped the entertainer because of the sexual battery court case.
What are you thoughts on Joan Jett replacing CeeLo Green?
The two have very different styles of music, will the fans who were expecting R&B and hip hop be pleased with ’80’s sounding rock?
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