ATELIER GARDENS SUMMER SPECIAL: Summer of Soul (OmU)
D.: Questlove, C.: Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Nina Simone
US 2021, 117 Min.
In the summer of 1969, crowds of people went to the US state of New York to attend the festival of the same name 80 kilometres away from the community of Woodstock. A music event that would go down in the history books as a cultural milestone of the hippie movement. What is sometimes forgotten, however, is that at the same time, less than 100 miles away, the hardly less legendary Harlem Cultural Festival was taking place. At the music festival, often referred to as "Black Woodstock", successful African-American artists such as Stevie Wonder or B. B. King gave free concerts for almost 300,000 visitors. The colourful festival events were accompanied by cameras at the time, but the resulting recordings were kept from the general public for decades. More than 50 years later, the historic video footage is finally being released.
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