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Questlove uncovers Black Woodstock in his hit Sundance doc
A scene from the documentary Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) by Ahmir Questlove Thompson. The film debuted at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. (Sundance Film Festival via AP)
Questlove attends the Planned Parenthood of New York City spring gala benefit on May 1, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Published February 17. 2021 1:00PM
By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Get the weekly rundown Email
Questlove responded with incredulous disbelief when he was first told about the footage.
A landmark 1969 Harlem concert series that he hadn t heard of? With Stevie Wonder? With Nina Simone? With Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King and the Staples Singers?
Questlove responded with incredulous disbelief when he was first told about the footage.
A landmark 1969 Harlem concert series that he hadn t heard of? With Stevie Wonder? With Nina Simone? With Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King and the Staples Singers?
“I was like, ‘Yeah, right.’ I know everything that musically happened during that time period and I’ve never heard of this in my life. ‘Get out of here,’” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson recalled in an interview. “Then they came back and showed me the footage and I was just jaw-dropped.”
That was the beginning of what would become “Summer of Soul (.or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a concert-film time-capsule of a historic but largely forgotten festival. Known as “Black Woodstock,” the festival occurred during the same summer as Woodstock and just 100 miles away but received far less attention.