SOUL TO SOUL is a feature length documentary about a historical, once in a lifetime, concert which took place in Black Star Square in Accra on March 6th 1971 where some of the greatest Afro-American musicians of the time performed in front of 100,000 people as part of the 14th anniversary of the country's independence celebrations. The original concert actually lasted for 14 hours - an hour for each year since Ghana had become the first African country to gain independence from Britain. Thankfully, SOUL TO SOUL runs for approx 96 minutes.
The concert features Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Picket, The Staples Singers, Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Santana and Voices Of East Harlem and local performers too creating some of the ground-breaking music that inspired Afro beat and Afrocentricism in America.
Also for those musicians, who were welcomed as royalty, this was cathartic experience - many visiting Africa for the first time. The film follows them as they spend few days in Ghana, visiting local villages and places before they actually performed the concert - an eye-opening experience for Ike & Tina Turner as they visit a local village or hear the sorrow in Mavis Staples' voice when she visits an old slave castle.
Screening as part of our continued Music Monthly strand kindly supported by Decoy Sound Studios, Sundowners DJ's, Old Jet Arts Centre, Stoddart Music, Whizzy Wallop Vinyl and Stephen "Foz" Foster.
