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Questlove Uncovers ‘Black Woodstock’ In His Hit Sundance Doc

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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.

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