Comments on: FORGET WOODSTOCK, PART ONE: “ARE YOU READY, BLACK PEOPLE?”—NINA SIMONE’s all-time knockout performance at the Harlem Festival, 1969

By: Older, Gifted and still black

Older, Gifted and still black — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:03:43 +0000

Please get the info re: how to get these recordings in whatever form they exist. The entire Harlem Festival represents other festivals we dont have recordings of that were the creativity of the Black Power Movement and the evolution of R&B and Soul. Let us know how we can support this movement to make a documentary history of this historical concert. Bless you for sharing.

By: Mitchell Bronfman

Mitchell Bronfman — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:42:36 +0000

Thank God there was somebody as you that took the trouble to save such a masterpiece. if you have this for sale Pls. e-mail me. I hope that the number=just say I love him- would be included.

By: Happy Birthday to You | Mighty Writers

Happy Birthday to You | Mighty Writers — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:02:31 +0000

[...] “Young, Gifted and Black,” Nina Simone Harlem Festival, Central Park, 1969 [...]

By: Blue Monday « STEVENHARTSITE

Blue Monday « STEVENHARTSITE — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:39:58 +0000

[...] and boy would you be wrong. Even though 50 hours of footage were shot, nothing has been released beyond a few scraps, such as this segment from Nina Simone’s blazing performance, which turned up a few years ago [...]

By: James Walker

James Walker — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:57:16 +0000

Hearing her sing young, gifted and black is truly something!

By: Mike Havenar

Mike Havenar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:33:36 +0000

ah…love of my life…Nina of the voice piano and attitude…first heard first album never got over her…nobody does it better.

By: Arts + Letters Links for Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Veritrope

Arts + Letters Links for Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Veritrope — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:36:26 +0000

[...] “ARE YOU READY, BLACK PEOPLE?”: NINA SIMONE’s all-time knockout performance at the Harlem Fest…Five YouTube clips which appear to form the whole of NINA SIMONE’s blazing knockout masterpiece set at HARLEM FESTIVAL ‘69(Via http://www.arthurmag.com ) [...]

By: Harlem Festival ‘69 « tastychemicals

Harlem Festival ‘69 « tastychemicals — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:51:03 +0000

[...] From Jay Babcock of arthurmag.com….. [...]

By: FORGET WOODSTOCK, PART TWO: SLY & THE FAMILY STONE at HARLEM FESTIVAL 1969 - professionally filmed, yet never commercially released | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS

Tue, 12 May 2009 16:41:18 +0000

[...] on from our recent post on NINA SIMONE’s all-time-winner from-the-soul performance in Central Park, su…l, here’s some grainy/blurry nth gen footage of Sly and the Family Stone’s performance [...]

By: YES I’M READY « GIRLS GUIDE TO ROCKING

YES I’M READY « GIRLS GUIDE TO ROCKING — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:32:57 +0000

[...] Magazine please for the release of footage of Nina Simone performing at the Harlem Festival in 1969. Though it hasn’t been released in the U.S. on DVD, the post compiles various Youtube clips [...]

By: Chocopups

Chocopups — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:11:38 +0000

Amen!
Seems like that Smithsonian piece ends on a weird anti-accessibility note, considering the archivist source.