When people think about music festivals in 1969 everyone talks about the Woodstock Music and Art FAir held in upstate New York. The Harlem Cultural Festival that was held as 6 concerts from June 29 - August 24, 1969, has been forgotten. Some people referred to it as the Black Woodstock. It included performances by Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone[1], Chuck Jackson, Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, the 5th Dimension, David Ruffin, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, and Moms Mabley, among others.
Finally, after 52 years a documentary film called Summer of Soul was produced and released to Hulu and selected theaters. Today we took a drive to the Kew Gardens Cinema and saw it there. I highly recommend it to my oldies music friends.
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