This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue our conversation with the folk musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman.

Last week, they performed at the Kennedy Center, where they unfurled banners to protest President Trump's

takeover of the fame cultural institution. The banners read, reinstate queer programming,

and creativity at the Kennedy Center must not be suppressed. Nora and Stephanie released the record

Lady of the Lake on the Brooklyn-based Jaloppy Records.

Nora's a prize-winning guitar and banjo player and has released three other albums on Jalopy Records.

She's 19 years old. Stephanie's regarded as one of the premier fiddlers of her generation.

She holds the record for most

rippins won in the renowned fiddle contest at the Appalachian string band music festival in

Cliff Top, West Virginia. Thank you both for staying with us. It's great to have you with us.

In part one of our conversation, we talked about what you did at the Kennedy Center,

but we didn't really set the stage, and now we have a little time.

Can you tell us where you were in the Kennedy Center on Thursday?

Because that was the same day that the Vances came in to see the National Symphony,

and they were booed.

Where were you? Yeah. Yeah, for our performance, we were on the

Millennium Stage. So the way that it's set up at the Kennedy Center is that there's a long,

wide corridor, and at one end of it is the Millennium Stage, and at the other end was the

entrance to the show that Vance and his wife attended.

The National Symphony, yeah. The National Symphony Orchestra's performance there. So while we were

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