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Sound + Vision: Wattstack

Sound + Vision: Wattstack

The legendary “black Woodstock” finally gets its due with a newly restored and digitally remixed Wattstax, Mel Stuart’s documentary of the epochal 1972 concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Featuring incendiary performances by Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Staple Singers, the Emotions, the Bar-Kays, and other greats of soul, R&B, and gospel — plus biting humor from a then little-known Richard Pryor — Wattstax is more than a concert film. It also captures a heady moment in mid-1970s, “black-is-beautiful” African-American culture, when Los Angeles’s black community came together just seven years after the Watts riots to celebrate its survival and a renewed hope in its future.

Sound + Vision: Music at The Movies presents the greatest in soundtrack-cinema. On the first Tuesday of every month, we curate a film screening where the music fuels the engine of the cinema experience, with a preshow moderated discussion on the film and music’s history and cultural impact.

The Linda
$12
07:00 PM - 09:55 PM on Tue, 4 Feb 2025

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The Linda
The Linda
339 Central Ave
Albany, New York 12206
518-465-5233