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A Harlem Cultural Festival was first proposed in 1964 to bring life to the Harlem neighborhood. [3] At the same time, in the mid-1960s, nightclub singer Tony Lawrence began working on community initiatives in Harlem, initially for local churches, but from 1966 working under New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher.
An iconic Harlem music festival is being revived thanks to Questlove’s award-winning documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution The post ‘Summer of Soul,’ designed to celebrate ...
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Harlem Festival of Culture (HFC) and AMC networks have announced a new multi-year partnership. AMC is the presenting sponsor for The post Harlem Festival of Culture partners with AMC Networks ...
Clapperboard from original videotape recordings of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. At the request of festival organizer and host Tony Lawrence, television producer Hal Tulchin recorded about 40 hours of footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival on videotape, [11] excerpts from which were packaged as two one-hour TV specials that were broadcast in 1969, one on CBS in July, and one on ABC ...
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Harlem Festival of Culture, a reimagined version of the weeks-long festival at the center of the film, will take place in the summer of 2023 at Marcus Garvey Park, the site of the concerts in the ...
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.