{"id":5614,"date":"2009-10-16T19:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2009-10-16T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:04:46","slug":"matt-boswell-banned-from-performing-at-reidsville-city-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/16\/matt-boswell-banned-from-performing-at-reidsville-city-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Boswell banned from performing at Reidsville city events!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local favorite band &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/mattboswellthehillbillybluesband\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Boswell &#038; the Hillbilly Blues Band<\/a>&#8221; won&#8217;t be performing in any more Reidsville city events.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reidsville had their Fall Festival last Saturday and Matt Boswell &#038; the Hillbilly Blues band&#8221; were one of the featured performers on the main stage. During the concert, Boswell was singing a Merle Haggard song on the Market Square stage and added &#8220;You can&#8217;t get married, you stupid gays and queers, so why don&#8217;t you go somewhere else?&#8221; to the lyrics. Not surprisingly, that seemed to have offended a few people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgsr47.com\" target=\"_blank\">WGSR-TV<\/a> broadcasted Boswell&#8217;s performance live and ran the taped performance on a regular basis, and that&#8217;s when a viewer wrote in asking that they edit out Boswell&#8217;s offensive lyrics. Reidsville city officials asked to review the tape after learning about the complaint. Reidsville&#8217;s city manager, Kelly Almond, said that &#8220;Market Square and all city venues are places to bring people together and not to divide them. We respect people&#8217;s free speech rights, but we don&#8217;t have to pay for it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Oopsie. What in the hell was he thinking? <\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reidsvillecitynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ReidsvilleCityNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local favorite band &#8220;Matt Boswell &#038; the Hillbilly Blues Band&#8221; won&#8217;t be performing in any more Reidsville city events.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newscentral","category-peoplecentral","category-reidsville-nc","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-1sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6099,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/01\/quickhits-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":5614,"position":0},"title":"QuickHits! 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