The last weekend of June will “commemorate the first weekend of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival,” which would later become the backbone of questlove's SummerOfSoul.
Gospel legend Mahalia Jackson speaks with New York City Mayor John Lindsay around the Harlem Cultural Festival. Her performances there have now been recognized by the U.S. Senate.
When a local promoter and New York City Parks department employee named Tony Lawrence first began the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1967, he hardly could have imagined that, 55 years later, his musicby “unanimous consent” on a resolution that honors the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival as well as the 1970 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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