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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a series of events, mainly music concerts, held annually in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, between 1967 and 1969 which celebrated soul, jazz and gospel and black music and culture and promoted Black pride.
The film examines the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which took place on six Sundays between June 29 and August 24 at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) in Harlem, using professional footage of the festival that was filmed as it happened, stock news footage, and modern-day interviews with attendees, musicians, and other commentators to provide historical background and social context.
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival marks a pivotal point in Black history with a series of music concerts to cap off a turbulent decade. The post The Harlem Cultural Festival Is a Vital Snapshot of ...
Tony Lawrence (born c. 1936) is a Kittitian-American singer, actor, community activist and festival organiser. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the main organisers of the annual Harlem Cultural Festival [1] in New York City, including the 1969 festival celebrated in the 2021 documentary film Summer of Soul. His activities after ...
“Summer of Soul,” an acclaimed documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, will fittingly debut over the summer. Searchlight Pictures is releasing the film in theaters on July 2. On ...
His directorial debut, “Summer of Soul,” a documentary spotlighting the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, earned him an Oscar. The leader of The Roots who appears on “The Tonight Show Starring ...
Harlem Cultural Festival was unapologetically Black, from the fashion to the hairstyles to the activism - and even Questlove had no idea it existed. In 1969, Woodstock overshadowed a ...
The Edwin Hawkins Singers performance of "Oh Happy Day" at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival appears in the 2021 music documentary, Summer of Soul. [ 7 ] Hawkins died of pancreatic cancer on January 15, 2018, in his home, in Pleasanton, California , at the age of 74.