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Stax Record's West Coast director, Forrest Hamilton, came up with the idea for the Wattstax concert. Being in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots in 1965, Hamilton later became aware of the yearly Watts Summer Festival that commemorated the revolt. [4]
Aug 20, 2022 · The Wattstax Concert: More Than Soul’s Woodstock. The Wattstax concert was a snapshot of the Black-is-Beautiful movement; an early 70s salve for the wounds caused by the 60s. Published on ...
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Aug 15, 2018 · Flipboard. Email. In a summer full of anniversaries, the 1972 Wattstax concert in Los Angeles probably doesn't stick out. But Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, of NPR's What's Good With ...
Mar 2, 2023 · Along with Tommy Jacquette, and Stax's West Coast director, Forest Hamilton, Bell started to work on organizing a large-scale benefit concert to close the 1972 Watts Summer Festival.
- Allyson Mccabe
Feb 22, 2024 · Wattstax was headlined by Isaac Hayes, whose funky “Theme From Shaft ” (from the soundtrack to the film of the same name) had just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, the concert...
- Andy Kahn
Aug 22, 2022 · A daylong festival 50 years ago on Aug. 20 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Wattstax was intended as a Black Woodstock. But the name of course was also a reference to the Watts Uprising of...
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Aug 18, 2015 · By Gerrick D. Kennedy. Aug. 18, 2015 4:30 AM PT. It was spoken of as sort of a black Woodstock. It featured artists like Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers. And it was right here in L.A. But...
