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After the Harlem Cultural Festival, There Was Newark's 'Love Festival'


After the Harlem Cultural Festival, There Was Newark s Love Festival
After the Harlem Cultural Festival, There Was Newark s Love Festival
Footage of major public concert that followed the ones documented in Summer of Soul is available to view online
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Summer of Soul, the new documentary from Questlove, spotlights 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts that entertainer turned promoter Tony Lawrence presented in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park in the summer of 1969. But less than two months after the final HCF show that August, Lawrence set his eyes on an equally momentous event across the Hudson River: Newark, New Jersey’s “Love Festival.” ....

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