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| Anitta at FTX Arena, Miami, Oct. 1, 2021. |
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This is the most promising new festival announcement to come over the transom in a long time: QUESTLOVE's SUMMER OF SOUL has inspired the creation of the HARLEM FESTIVAL OF CULTURE, which will be held for the first time next year in the same park that hosted the 1969 HARLEM CULTURAL FESTIVAL at the center of the Oscar-winning documentary. Magazine editor MUSA JACKSON, who was at the 1969 fest and is featured in the movie, is organizing the revival/renewal with event producer YVONNE MCNAIR and Harlem community developer NIKOA EVANS. Like all great historical documentaries, "Summer of Soul" says as much about the time in which it was made—today, that is—as it does about the era whose history it's telling. Returning to the same soil to create a new musical story may be an even better sequel than the one Questlove has occasionally hinted at by noting how many hours of 1969 footage are still lying around unseen. The organizers are promising a multi-day music fest along with music, film and community events throughout the year. It should be noted that the other major New York fest of the summer of '69, the one that got all the media attention for the next half century, spawned a series of underwhelming, even disastrous, sequels. It turned out that "hey let's see if we can do this again" wasn't much of an organizing principle. "Summer of Soul" is a movie about community, politics, race, cultural memory and the power of music to tell a community's story and to carry it across time. Keep documenting, acknowledging and nurturing all of that, and the Harlem Festival of Culture has the potential to be something special.
Firestarter
The UK government has enacted a "temporary exceptional measure" eliminating one of the bigger headaches for British artists trying to tour Europe this summer, which, it can't be emphasized enough, the UK government created in the first place by negotiating a hasty, chaotic breakup with the Continent. This is good news in the same way it's good when the firefighters who set your house on fire come back to put it out. At least they came back. The government in this case is suspending "cabotage" rules that require UK truckers to return home after making three stops in Europe (and vice versa for European truckers)—inconvenient when a band is touring more than three cities, obviously—and that generally make it hard for trucks based on either side of the newly hardened border to operate on the other side. Live music and trucking execs expressed relief while noting numerous other headaches remain, including, for example, that the suspended rules apply only to truckers based in the UK, not to those based in Europe. "Everyone relies on trucks," British agent CRAIG STANLEY told Billboard. Truck regulations aren't the only obstacles for bands who want to play Paris or Madrid or Vienna, of course. Might more temporary exceptional measures make their way onto the legislative docket? Or, better, permanent ones?
Rest in Peace
Comedian, actor and insurance duck GILBERT GOTTFRIED, seen here in 3rd Bass' "The Gas Face," "Wordz of Wizdom" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Hood" videos.
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