Enjoy an Evening of ‘Hot Fun In The Summertime’
A Brief One from Doug Draper, Niagara At Larger reporter/publisher and life-long lover of Black American Music
Posted August 1st, 2024 on Niagara At Large
In the summer of 1969, when close to half a million young people were grooving to the music of some of the best musical artists at the time at the now-legendary Woodstock Festival in Upstate New York, there was another large music festival that that took place in New York City’s Harlem district that went largely ignored by the mainstream media.
That festival featured some of the best black artists at the time – Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mavis Staples of the Staple Singers, Stevie Wonder and the list goes on and on – that finally received the attention it deserved a few years ago in an award-winning film called ‘Summer of Soul’.
This Friday, August 2nd at 7 p.m. the Film House located inside the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on St. Paul Street in downtown St. Catharines, Niagara, that critically acclaimed documentary film – equivalent in quality and excitement as the one produced more than five decades ago on the Woodstock Festival, will be featured, once again, on the big screen.
If you love great music, do yourself a favour and go see it. (And if anyone is wondering, I am not getting free tickets for posting this.)
To watch a trailer for the film ‘Summer of Soul’ click on the screen immediately below –
For more on the Film House and its upcoming calendar of films, click on the following link – THE FILM HOUSE (firstontariopac.ca) .
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