{"id":15122,"date":"2021-02-04T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:34:11","slug":"revealed-and-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15122","title":{"rendered":"revealed and honoured&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ahmir &#039;Questlove&#039; Thompson on Harlem Cultural Fest, Summer of Soul Doc\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D5Tb6tTK4io?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO INTERVIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ahmir<\/strong> <strong>Questlove Thompson cleans up at 2021 Sundance for his \u2018Summer of Soul\u2019 directorial debut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Questlove-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15133\" width=\"900\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Questlove-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Questlove-1-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Questlove-1-768x649.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer Of Soul (\u2026Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the feature documentary directed by the Roots frontman Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson, won both the 2021 Sundance grand jury and audience awards in the U.S. Documentary Competition category. <em>Drawing from archival footage that had been hidden and unseen in a basement for over 50 years<\/em>, Thompson recreated the Harlem Cultural Festival, a massive music event celebrating African American music that 300,000 attended in the summer of 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film tells the story of the festival staged at Harlem\u2019s Mount Morris Park on six Sundays between June and August 1969. It featured an all-star lineup, including Sly &amp; the Family Stone, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, B.B. King, Gladys Knight &amp; the Pips, Max Roach, Mahalia Jackson, and Mavis Staples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4EXKVJTZV5FMVNCTPSJ7YDVCUM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15127\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4EXKVJTZV5FMVNCTPSJ7YDVCUM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4EXKVJTZV5FMVNCTPSJ7YDVCUM-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-Questlove.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15132\" width=\"638\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-Questlove.jpg 850w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-Questlove-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Court-Painter-Questlove-768x695.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO INTERVIEW Ahmir Questlove Thompson cleans up at 2021 Sundance for his \u2018Summer of Soul\u2019 directorial debut Summer Of Soul (\u2026Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the feature documentary directed by the Roots frontman Ahmir \u201cQuestlove\u201d Thompson, won both the 2021 Sundance grand jury and audience awards in the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=15122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;revealed and honoured&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15134,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/15134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}