The San Francisco Symphony announced that it has canceled its upcoming North Carolina stop because of the state’s anti-LGBT law. The orchestra’s planned stop in April will not ahead until the state repeals HB2. It also joins a growing list of performers, sports teams, and conferences that are choosing to skip the state as a form of boycott. Others included Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, the NBA, Itzhak Perlman, and Demi Lovato.

on Monday that it had canceled a pair of April concerts in North Carolina to protest the new state law curbing anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

According to the NY Times:

The action affects concerts on April 5 and 6 in Chapel Hill, where the symphony had planned to play music by John Cage, Bartok and Mahler before traveling to Carnegie Hall in New York. The orchestra said that it was inspired in part by the mayor of San Francisco, Edwin M. Lee, who decided to bar city employees in publicly funded positions from traveling to North Carolina on business. While the orchestra is not a public entity, officials said that they wanted to honor their role as cultural ambassadors who uphold the values of their city.

Brent Assink, the executive director of the San Francisco Symphony, said in a statement: “We would have loved to perform at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a community that in many ways is consonant with our own San Francisco Bay Area.”