Harpgirl you're not entirely correct, Artworks, you're right. Ms. Ronstadt did have an obligation, professionally and ethically regardless of what her contract did or did not say, to disclose to her employers any antics she planned to display other than the musical performance she was hired for, most especially if it is political. This was not a Central Park, open-street concert, but a performance in a five-star facility with a five-star audience. I am greatly in favor of free speech, but there is a time and place for everything. Dixie Chick, Natalie, said so herself when interviewed by Diane Sawyer, that the British audience was not at all hostile to their group during their concert performance, she just felt the need to speak out. Unfortunately, Ms. Ronstadt paid the price for her need to speak out, just as the Dixie Chicks did and are stilling having to pay even now.