Continuing on from our recent post on NINA SIMONE’s all-time-winner from-the-soul performance in Central Park, summer 1969 at the Harlem Festival, here’s some grainy/blurry nth gen footage of Sly and the Family Stone’s performance AT THE SAME FESTIVAL. Other performers included STEVIE WONDER, B.B. KING, THE STAPLES SINGERS, MAHALIA JACKSON, GLADYS KNIGHT and many more. This footage has never been commercially released, due (from what I can tell) to foolish decisions by the footage’s director and rights-holder, 82-year-old Hal Tulchin. (More info on that here.) It is an outrage that this festival has been disappeared from history while Woodstock, which happened the same season, gets all the play and press and so on. See what we’re talking about…

Previously on Arthurmag.com:

1. Pauline Oliveros @ FirstWorks Festival – This Sat & Sun @ RISD – Providence, RI
2. This Sunday, October 18: Woodstock Mountain Poetry Festival