Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “If there’s any prescience there, it was certainly the …
Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Michael Lang, the co-creator and …
Film review: Five stars for the 'timely' Summer of Soul Courtesy of Mass Distraction Media Summer of Soul captures the atmosphere at a Harlem concert where artists including Sly Stone performed A 'gloriously entertaining' new film rescues a historic, long-hidden Harlem concert from obscurity. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples sing gospel together at the 1969 concert …
Sly Stone performing at the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969, featured in the documentary “Summer of Soul.” The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was filmed to spectacular effect but, we’re told, “the footage sat in a basement for 50 years” because there was no interest in a “Black Woodstock.” “Nobody ever …
