Pop singer and musician Prince on Wednesday postponed a planned March 5 concert at Music Hall due to “technical difficulties.”

        The decision to cancel was not boycott-related, said Jessica Brenner, Prince's publicist. The performance will be rescheduled, she said.

        “It definitely has nothing to do with anything going on in the community there,” Ms. Brenner said. “It has to do with load-in and load-out times, which the venue is fully aware of.”

        Seats for the 9 p.m. show, which went on sale Saturday, cost $126, $86 and $51 each. Ticketmaster has ceased all sales for the event.

        While Ms. Brenner denied any connection between the boycott and the cancellation, a spokesman for the Washington-based National Black Chamber of Commerce told the Enquirer that the artist was concerned about the boycott.

        Charles DeBow III, director of special projects for the chamber, said Prince's representatives contacted the organization and asked it to gather facts about the boycott. Prince is a member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, he said.

        Mr. DeBow said the representatives told him they were troubled by the venue and local promoters' nondisclosure of facts about a tense racial situation, which could “adversely affect Prince's career, image and what he stands for.”

        When questioned by the Enquirer on Tuesday, Dennis Heffron, of Impact LLC — the agency that books Prince's tour — at first declined comment, then called Mr. DeBow's statements “ridiculous.”

        “He has never talked to Prince about this,” Mr. Heffron said. “Prince knows nothing about a boycott as far as I know.”

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