During the same summer as Woodstock in 1969, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and more played a series of free concerts in Harlem intended to be a celebration of Black pride.
Called the Harlem Cultural Festival and attended by more than 300,000 people, the shows were largely forgotten, and the recordings languished in a basement for decades.
More than 50 years later, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson tells the story of the 1969 event known colloquially as the "Black Woodstock" in a new film heading to Sundance entitled Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).
On a lunch break from his day job providing the music for The Tonight Show with The Roots, the musical polymath spoke with THR about how his.
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