Bluesfest has announced that controversial Sydney band Sticky Fingers will no longer play at its 2023 event, after some artists cancelled their performances.
Bluesfest organisers have confirmed Sticky Fingers will not perform at this year's festival.Bluesfest said the decision to remove Sticky Fingers was "difficult to accept".
In 2016, Indigenous singer-songwriter Thelma Plum accused Frost of threatening behaviour towards her. He later apologised. "We apologise to those artists, sponsors, and any others we involved in this matter through our mistaken believes that forgiveness and redemption are the rock on which or society is built," the statement read.
"This cruelty and lack of compassion are foreign to my values, as is the attempt to suppress the band's artistic expression for entirely inoffensive works.Sampa The Great also announced she would cancel her Bluesfest appearance over Sticky Fingers' inclusion.It came after King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard announced it was cancelling its appearance, saying it stood against misogyny, racism, transphobia and violence.
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